Honest question.

If I want to spin up a new project with a coding agent to explore some idea and I'd like the bare metal performance, why would I choose C++ over Rust?

I could choose TypeScript over Rust if I wanted it to be html first or I could choose Go if I wanted it to be clear of the complexity of memory management or I could choose C# if I wanted it to have best interface with windows stuff or I could choose something Erlang VM based for resilience and multithreading.

But what reason might I have to pick C++?