I've seen myriad "written in C/Python/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Lua" posts over the years. You're not imagining things, though. The world waited 30 years (from the 1985 when C++ appeared to 2015 when Rust 1.0 was released) for a new, viable language in the systems space (read: without garbage collection). That's a really long time, and the excitement around the language is well deserved.