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.
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.