It does make sense, because you filter out the non enthusiasts, a proxy for great programmers. When Rust was still nascent, the people interested in it were lik

It does make sense, because you filter out the non enthusiasts, a proxy for great programmers. When Rust was still nascent, the people interested in it were likely to be of a higher quality bar than any regular old Javascript dev. That's not to say that JS is bad necessarily, just that enthusiasts correlate to great programming skills.