You have mischaracterized the thread. Several posters have, in fact, explored Rust in a meaningful way, and don't see it as a meaningful improvement over existing languages. I agree with Soma here. You were both obviously "tipped off" to come to this thread, to shore up the failing arguments of the OP. I don't buy that you were just passing by, and happened to read a seven-page thread at random, only to wade in with your own "correction of misinformation." The point I made in my very first reply to this thread remains valid:
The barrier to entry in the systems programming language market is just too impenetrable, due to the entrenched tools we already have.
Just like generation-Y kids don't like to be advertised to, programmers generally don't like to be proselytized. We're (mostly) quite happy with the tools we have, despite, and in some cases, because of their idiosyncrasies.