> Rust seems to have this cult-like power. Rust developers are definitely drinking a lot of Kool-Aid. Maybe if all the JavaScript tools are written in Rust, we'll start seeing Rustscript in the browser.

Rust has tremendous popularity because it solves an enormous class of problems for system programmers and require very few compromises compared to any alternative.

The hype is real, but it is very unlikely that another language will compete for this space.

Rust doesn't really work well in the niches most impacted by fad-driven-development. Nobody is claiming you should do web dev in Rust nor consider it comparable to much better languages for that space.