Rust continues to top the charts as the most admired and desired language by developers, and in this post, we dive a little deeper into how (and why) Rust is stealing the hearts of developers around the world.
So the survey of 90k developers on one of the most popular programming sites, have it as the most “want to reuse it in the future” language for 8 years and this is somehow a minority?
What is your data source for this enlightened majority that is opposed to it? Your own opinion?
Generally the programmers that visit these kinds of websites, let alone participate in a survey, are the enthusiast programmers who are much more likely to be interested in exploring a new language in the first place.
There’s a considerable potential for a selection bias here. Not that this disproves the survey, but generally these kinds of surveys tend to be a little bit ahead of the curve, so to speak.
Watch out: That mindset is what got me into Rust in the first place!
I was so fed up with everybody drowning on about Rust that I thought I need to read up on it a bit so that I can argue against the hype. I am a seasoned C++ dev after all, I use a language that I picked because it allowed for robust and fast code. What could Rust add on top of that?
Well, I have a job working almost exclusively with rust now and do not plan to ever go back.
It’s a cult. A vocal minority doesn’t speak for an entire industry.
So the survey of 90k developers on one of the most popular programming sites, have it as the most “want to reuse it in the future” language for 8 years and this is somehow a minority?
What is your data source for this enlightened majority that is opposed to it? Your own opinion?
Generally the programmers that visit these kinds of websites, let alone participate in a survey, are the enthusiast programmers who are much more likely to be interested in exploring a new language in the first place.
There’s a considerable potential for a selection bias here. Not that this disproves the survey, but generally these kinds of surveys tend to be a little bit ahead of the curve, so to speak.
Watch out: That mindset is what got me into Rust in the first place!
I was so fed up with everybody drowning on about Rust that I thought I need to read up on it a bit so that I can argue against the hype. I am a seasoned C++ dev after all, I use a language that I picked because it allowed for robust and fast code. What could Rust add on top of that?
Well, I have a job working almost exclusively with rust now and do not plan to ever go back.
As mostly a novice (interested, but unpracticed) programmer I see it as an updated/upgraded C family language?
I don’t think there would be a large learning curve?
The basics are all the same:. memory, cpus and caches in between ;-)
But rust does approach many things very differently from C or C++. Learning those new approaches takes time and practice.