Rust has been releasing since 2006 (going off of Wikipedia). It's picking up in popularity as the ecosystem is reaching a form of maturity, but it's hardly new.
That in mind, the main reason why people tend to get frustrated with Rust to the point of condemning it is because Rust programmers tend to be rather zealous of how much they want to spread it's use, even in domains where it's more a disadvantage than a strength (game dev is the most obvious example, but Rust is a quagmire of constant rewrites if you have any form of rapid iteration or unstable specs). When those disadvantages subsequently pop up and become an issue, the response from Rust programmers often amounts to "you're holding it wrong", which just makes people curious about the language more annoyed since it comes across like their problems aren't being taken seriously.
It's perhaps no surprise that Rust communities oft find overlap with Wayland and Nix zealots because of this, where the shortcomings of their tools aren't an impediment to getting as many people as possible to use their tools.
I don't think it's any concerted movement, it's just that people tend to get annoyed when they're preached to even when what's being preached doesn't work for them, so they push back against it.
That in mind, the main reason why people tend to get frustrated with Rust to the point of condemning it is because Rust programmers tend to be rather zealous of how much they want to spread it's use, even in domains where it's more a disadvantage than a strength (game dev is the most obvious example, but Rust is a quagmire of constant rewrites if you have any form of rapid iteration or unstable specs). When those disadvantages subsequently pop up and become an issue, the response from Rust programmers often amounts to "you're holding it wrong", which just makes people curious about the language more annoyed since it comes across like their problems aren't being taken seriously.
It's perhaps no surprise that Rust communities oft find overlap with Wayland and Nix zealots because of this, where the shortcomings of their tools aren't an impediment to getting as many people as possible to use their tools.
I don't think it's any concerted movement, it's just that people tend to get annoyed when they're preached to even when what's being preached doesn't work for them, so they push back against it.