I had someone reach out to try to hire me last year to build a website. A neat and useful one, but a website. And they had decided they wanted to use Rust, so t

I had someone reach out to try to hire me last year to build a website. A neat and useful one, but a website. And they had decided they wanted to use Rust, so they got in touch with me. This person was primarily non-technical, but an entrepreneur. I couldn't understand the decision making that led them there, other than: people had told him that Rust was the new good thing. So that's what he wanted.