Why Rust for general application development?

First of all, hello everyone!

I recently started learning Rust and it's been difficult but interesting so far.

I just had a question about something - I keep reading that you can use Rust for general high level application development and things such as web API's, but to me, Rust seems too low level to make those in a practical setting. I'm not saying that you can't use Rust for those, but it seems similar to trying to use C/C++ to create web apps - it's doable, but it'll be much easier/faster to use a higher level language.

Am I missing something about the language that would make it easy to create high level applications instead of using something such as Java/C#/Go/Python, etc.?

I appreciate your input!