To me, it looks like Rust is suffering from "cool kids syndrome." It's hip right now, and all the cool kids are piling in, or some of the people who have been using it for a while are hoping to cash in social capital.

I don't understand this way of using technology or being in this profession; self promotion and dialogue through twitter, blog posting all over the place, conferences, panels, books, speaking tours, ego & self promotion all built around particular tools.

In the end these are tools for writing software and we get paid. Is Rust a better tool that some others? Yes, and it's what I'm working with these days. But it's not a lifestyle, and it should not be a culture/subculture. Other professions don't generally talk this way about their tools, why are certain people in software like this?

To answer the question: Rust is a good systems programming language. But I will say this: many of the people piling into it right now don't actually need Rust.