Yes, Rust which is under consideration as the first ever non-C language in the kernel, has very little real-world respect.

JFC, I can get that sometimes Rust folks can be obnoxious and overbearing, but IME it's the "never-rust" crowd that are more obnoxious.

This is wrong. There is a lot of respect for rust, being used by Microsoft, Google, etc. (and i'd argue its a bad thing because it's stifling innovation and sucking up a lot of air for people who want temporal memory safety without all the... technical baggage that rust cones with)