If it has become a cult, it's become a cult that has infiltrated so far as DARPA - see their TRACTOR program (https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translatin

If it has become a cult, it's become a cult that has infiltrated so far as DARPA - see their TRACTOR program (https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to-rust https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to...) I think couching the success and excitement around rust to ideology or a "cult" as you say is somewhat digging your head into the sand. There are concrete facts and results. Rust is empirically producing levels of memory safety that humanity did not think was possible with software at scale. This is truly groundbreaking.