> Sorry for my ignorance, but my impression was that in the native spaces the consesus is that Rust is the only reasonable choice for any new code.

Please tell that to the many millions of C/C++ programmers writing new code every day, who are only vaguely familiar with Rust if at all. If by consensus you mean "consensus amongst the vanguard of Hacker News" then yes. If you mean "consensus" as in the "consensus of the software development industry" then absolutely not.