I’d guess that not many people are using rust for work compared to how many use it for fun. If that’s true then most people using rust are doing so because the

I’d guess that not many people are using rust for work compared to how many use it for fun. If that’s true then most people using rust are doing so because they enjoy it, not because they’re forced to. So most people with an active interest in the language are the ones who enjoy it. It’s similar for other niche languages which haven’t made it into many workplaces. Compare that to the mainstream languages which a lot of us have to use whether we like them or not, and so we have opinions about them which are not necessarily positive.