[ragnese]

I think the people rationalizing are wrong. You're right that you see a lot of posts with "X is a Foo written in Rust!".

A few years ago I saw a bunch about Go, too. That seems to have died down.

But I think the real reason is that people are excited to use Rust for "real stuff". And a lot of Rust fans don't get to use Rust at $dayJob or whatever. There's also a bit of naysayer criticism that it isn't a practical language, etc.

So, no, it doesn't really matter that something is written in Rust. It's just Rust fans being hyped up about it. It might be a little annoying, but replies like yours aren't really any better, honestly.