[nicopappl]

Remember that even those people you are citing built on someone else's work. Someone's contribution may simply be a tinny layer on top of an already existing massive amount of work. It is difficult to distinguish new work from pre-existing work in a domain you have no expertise in.

The other thing is: no person is an island. The rust compiler is the work of an absurdly large amount of people, the most visible members of the community absolutely deserve their reputation, but you must not forget that rust is mostly people like you and I. People who may have contributed a tinny bit and do not get a wide recognition.