It’s kinda serious, but definitely also a meme. Basically, Rust is the safest mainstream language out there (unlike languages like C or C++, which are full of foot guns, or things like JavaScript or Python, which aren’t even strongly typed), so there’s a strong desire to rewrite things in just because you often don’t encounter stupid bugs in Rust code - the compiler won’t let you write it. There are safer languages out there, but they’re highly impractical for general purposes and are used for insanely mission critical shit (e.g. pacemakers).
It’s kinda serious, but definitely also a meme. Basically, Rust is the safest mainstream language out there (unlike languages like C or C++, which are full of foot guns, or things like JavaScript or Python, which aren’t even strongly typed), so there’s a strong desire to rewrite things in just because you often don’t encounter stupid bugs in Rust code - the compiler won’t let you write it. There are safer languages out there, but they’re highly impractical for general purposes and are used for insanely mission critical shit (e.g. pacemakers).
I’d give this a quick watch: https://youtu.be/voRBS0r4EyI