[jstx1]

It's not like there is aversion overall; you're seeing two effects:

1. people being really excited by Rust, learning Rust, using it for hobby projects, rewriting things in Rust etc.

1.1. sometimes the excitement has downsides - people get carried way, they get too preachy, they exaggerate how good it is, they insist on using Rust in places where it doesn't belong, they refuse to listen to criticism, they bring it up any time programming languages are discussed, they start acting a bit cult-ish

2. as a result of 1.1, when a positive Rust post comes up some people will have a negative reaction. Sometimes it's negative in a reasonable way that counteracts the exaggerated excitement and sometimes it's a more general feeling of "oh not this again".

So some people have aversion to Rust some of the time, there's still plenty of other people who like Rust or don't care too much about it either way.

[zduny]

But I feel like there's some deeper story about Rust that I've missed and am out of the loop now.

Well, to me Rust is just a tool that I've discovered, it meet my expectations so I started using it.

Only then I've started noticing comments on reddit or whatever like "bleh, not Rust again" and really don't get why a programming language can be so triggering to people.

[dcminter]

Honestly I think jstx1 nailed it. There have been a lot of posts here and elsewhere of the form "I [re]wrote ${mundane tool} in Rust!" and while there's nothing wrong with that people (especially ones NOT interested in Rust) are tired of it. I felt the same way about Erlang a few years back. So it's part of the natural ebb and flow I think.