I'm not using C and C++ professionally at all so the only place Rust has to fit in is fun or potential long term professional opportunity (assuming Rust is a fair bit more widespread than now by then, otherwise C and C++ win in the native field for employment opportunities), I'll not have fun (and I won't learn anything I don't immediately need that won't bring me fun) in a sea of vitriol against anyone who doesn't hate C and C++ so I'm happy Rust community guidelines forbid such idiocy in official spaces and documentation.
Rust is apparently targeting C and C++ devs but at the same time the ones that like it are going crazy and saying stuff about C and C++ being impossible languages (I agree they are by far the most spartan and hardest in the mainstream right now but not impossible as evidenced by lots of quite reliable software written in it, some that lives depend on).
Either the most obnoxious ones left, or they learned that this was not a productive approach. It's been refreshingly quiet lately...
But I disagree that there's a war every time Rust comes up, as a general thing. Many of the Rust proponents here are quite reasonable, willing to listen, willing to explain gently. (The conversation on the current article has gotten a bit out of hand, I'll admit.)
I wasted an hour and a half or even two here today as well, I at least got a reply from a Rust core team member who responded to me (yay), was nice enough and told me the community rules disallow wars, that's something I'd not get otherwise, but still, this feels very very unproductive in the end...
Kinda reminds me of the "coal vs. renewable energy" feud. The first tier arguments are formed around {economics, externalized costs, existing infrastructure, base load vs intermittent load} and then second-tier arguments align around {culture, history, identity, momentum, geography, political party}. You are making a second-tier argument against Rust when the article is making a first-tier argument for Rust.
I would argue that you are attributing to "the Rust community" the more outrageous attitudes which are a minority of the Rust community and ignoring the majority which have much more rational and banal attitude. And likely you are attributing the inverse to the existing C/C++ attitudes towards Rust (conveniently ignoring lots of the best arguments for Rust). It's exactly what happens in those feuds you described and in modern US politics (Democrats vs. Republicans, liberals/progressives vs. conservatives, secular vs. religious, etc). By focusing on the strawman arguments, you are missing the potential benefits of using a newer generation language.