So I've been reading "Rust in Action" for some time and I have a question. How did it happen that #Rust became associated with the most annoying rainbow-haired people who try to reinvent every wheel in existence, at least as a cliché?
I mean, there are extremely simple and friendly languages like Python which attracts a lot of starry-eyed people, because you can learn the basics quite literally in 15 minutes, and at the same time leverages very important tasks like being a #1 language of choice in many fields of science.
But Rust is actually hard. It's not a newbie language, it's not a language that does everything for you and instead of you. Writing some big application in Rust takes a lot of effort, at least because of compiler that likes to shot you in the face and make you write correct code.
So I guess most Rust programmers aren't newbies either. Also it's not a language for every possible field you can imagine, it has quite a strict field of application.
How come it's one of the most popular and at the same time most annoying languages (and by that I mean general opinions)?