> significant part of the rust community consists of software talibans

I seriously don't get it though. Rust is a nice language, but so is X. However we don't see X people brigading existing projects with constant bombardment with "rewritten in X". What is that about Rust that prompts this behavior?

what do you mean by that? were there people brigarding postgres to rewrite to rust? otherwise relative to popularity i do also constantly see posts on here about Project X rewritten in Go, Zig, C etc...

It's pretty ergonomic to agents. Like typescript.

Rust attracts zealots because of the various kinds of safety guarantees. The speed means it can replace more or less anything.

People see the safety as a moral superiority so it attracts obnoxious zealots.

Other languages' features and syntax aren't nearly so easy for zealots to form behind. The perception of absolute safety it puts in some people makes them crazy.