just my opinion, but at first I was mostly a C/C++ developer, I like the idea of controlling everything and not wasting memory, and the idea of being really fas

just my opinion, but at first I was mostly a C/C++ developer, I like the idea of controlling everything and not wasting memory, and the idea of being really fast as well as the idea of compile time type checking . But for a living I have to write websites/webservices etc. so most I have to use PHP etc. So Rust is hype (let's admit it, new is always better, like your new toy for christmas) and its standard library come with enough webservices-friendly things to make it sexy to develop small webservices with it. Also it introduces a lot of interesting features (functionnal programming, immutability by default, primitives to write parallel code) in a C-syntax language that was before in some more exotic language.