Rust adoption is BLAZINGLY fast!

Today I am discussing how the Rust programming language has the fastest growing developer community.

#rust #programming #developers

[soberhippie]

As a pedant, I must say that 300% growth is not tripling, but quadrupling. The numbers you quote later (220 vs 60 or 2200 vs 600) confirm that

[stevenhe]

I feel that this "blazingly fast" is becoming more and more of a meme to me… It's a meme that drives people to Rust tho

[glennmiller]

My one regret about Rust is all of the time I could have saved not debugging race conditions, memory corruption, et al, in C & C++.

[kinositajona]

Looking at the historical stats, r/rust is doubling its subscriber count every 2 years pretty consistently.

Exponential growth is nice.

[uwuzote]

It's so exciting to see how Rust community grows every day, i am proud of being a part of such awesome community!!! Maybe, from year to year i even get Rust job!

[thurston]

I use rust to run a webserver for our school's cameras. Rust rocket is a great way to easily send ssh commands to unlock our doors using raspberry pi 0s and 5v relays from a web interface

[TheZdannar]

I have pushed my company into adopting rust. There are folks that want to learn and a few of us that are developing in it. Hopefully soon it will become more notable in our hiring.

[ErikBongers]

The main thing that still scares me to try a new project or porting an existing one to Rust is explicit life-times. The 2nd thing is, when I browse through existing Rust (library) code, there's still quite some stuff that I don't understand.

[TAINCER_]

As someone who's currently looking for a rust job in Center Europe, the amount of jobs in the cryptocurrency market by comparison to the web, or even IOT is overwhelming. That's not an area where I want to work every day in and I know from my colleagues, that they also wouldn't. I hope rust is getting more adoption (in the business area) in web (backend or frontend) or game development soon.

I really like the language, and have used it for many months now. Although I use elixir sometimes if the Project has to be up fast.

[mdgaziur]

Rust is blazingly fast, my phone is blazingly fast, my laptop is blazingly fast, but why am I slow? Ig I should rewrite myself in Rust ™️

[AndrewErwin]

I don't like surveys that talk about JavaScript in terms of programming languages (especially when contrasted with things like Rust, etc)... the fact is that JS is the only DOM manipulator that exists (with the exception of some advanced CSS techniques, and wow, how close are we to considering CSS a programming language and adding them to these surveys). The fact is, almost every single website out there uses JavaScript. Not because it is a "preferred programming language", but because it is the only programming language that browsers acknowledge.
Comparing JavaScript to something like PHP (as an example) assumes a competition between Node and PHP, which is NOT THE CASE in the vast majority of websites (PHP is still present on more than 80% of websites, while JavaScript is present on more than 95% - but no one breaks down WHERE the JavaScript is being used)...
Anyway, </rant>

[tjpld]

I think I found my primary language with Rust. I tired a lot and was really in love with Haskell and its type system and strong compile time guarantees. It felt like the right way to write software. Rust offers the same, but has way better ecosystem and you can also write functional style with pattern matching, iterators etc.

[Mixesha]

Sadly 95% of the job for Rust are for Web3.

[redcrafterlppa]

I'm primarily using rust to develop performance critical desktop apps. I use rust instead of c/c++ because it has a more high level feature set and a better memory management system.

[MartinPodholaMlok]

I use Rust for Backend in our company projects. And also for home projects as sensors logic, statistics, API and system tools on RPis.

[GeekMasher]

I use Rust for my web backends versus Python now... I think this is amazing to see and we continue to grow this amazing community

[RichReflectionz]

I'm new to programming and chose Rust as my first language even though it has not been recommended, it has been great having community help. Been learning Rust so I can utilise it in the blockchain space.

[HarshGhodkar]

Need content on using Rust and Anchor for Solana Smart Contract development. Would be a great help if you could create some more content on it.

[sps]

One of the best decision of my life was learning rust along with C#

[technologyondemand]

I am currently using Rust for a wasm project (also using gpt 3 and firebase while hosting on netlify)