What do you mean by “these days”? To me, it seems like rust is a pretty constant factor on HN for at least two years now.

Most of the platforms were successfully petitioned to have rust sdk mandatory added so that rust code can be added to the platforms. The previously situation was rust was not allowed because the external dependency of the rust sdk was blocked.

Note that the rust having no stable api is not fixed, so I think there's a bunch of internal systems on each platform to hard lock the rust dependencies across multiple rust users.

There's some friction between platform packagers and the code that the author wrote exactly as it was written.

there has been a few adopters of rust... linux formally choosing it for some of their systems being the most notable recently(maybe a few months ago).

AI has made it exceptionally easy to program with.

I've switched to using Rust from Python simply because of AI development