Or Java, F#, Scala, Kotlin, Haskell. If we were to randomly pick a language, chances are it could be a good fit for these — Rust became as well-known as is because it was made for a different niche, where there were no competition.
Hell, even Python can map JSON to a strongly typed object. I am a firm fan of Pydantic and its competitors when dealing with JSON blobs. No-one deserves a KeyError in prod code.