I think the hype _has_ melted away in the last year or two, since Rust left Mozilla's basement and started working for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and others. Ther

I think the hype _has_ melted away in the last year or two, since Rust left Mozilla's basement and started working for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and others. There are newer shinier languages for the hip crowd; the political aspect has toned down naturally while safeguards have helped the community remain vibrant. I think the strongest signal is the inclusion of Rust in the Linux kernel. Having Linus give his blessing is about the highest level of certification Rust could have hoped for in the public space. The fact that a respected project like fish adopts Rust when they could have stayed with C++ indefinitely is just one more demonstration of this new maturity stage. Expect many more open source projects to follow suit.