Maybe, but the thing is, if you are a new Scala dev, you will 1.) be confused by the number of build tools. Sbt is still kind of standard but there is now also Mill and now Bleep (first time I even hear of it!). And some people will tell you to just use Maven or even Gradle. Well...

And 2.) most people will go with sbt; and while it has improved a lot it is still comparably slow, has some annoying bugs and so on.

Compare that to Rust - I don't think those problems exist there.