There'd be a lot less Rust evangelism on this site if there were less UB bug outcomes on this site.

I would have picked Elixir, but it's unsuitable for game dev (at least thus far)

I wouldn't consider it "Rust evangelism" as much as "not C/C++/any language that makes it trivially easy to write undefined-behavior bugs, evangelism".

I'd be just as much a fan of Roc, but they're not yet mature and actually in the middle of a compiler rewrite (as it so happens, from Rust to Zig, lol) https://www.roc-lang.org/

While they did mention rust, the actual suggestion was "functional programming and immutability", which to me suggests several other languages first and makes it not really rust evangelism.

If your attitude is just "I'm not going to use abc because too many people say it's good", without even just trying that out first hand to verify those claims, I don't think you can go very far in your technical skills.

The best engineers I know are open to everything and played with almost every tool/language/whatever to form (sorry) informed opinions about them. They often know what they are talking about, and they choose the best tool for the job.

I don't think mentioning Rust on an article specifically talking about a memory safety bug count as "constant". This is Rust's core strength.