Why Rust is the most admired language among developers

https://github.blog/2023-08-30-why-rust-is-the-most-admired-language-among-developers/

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starflower@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Rust, combined with its' excellent tooling, is the only language that has managed to make me feel like a genius while writing code. It may not be for everyone, but I personally absolutely love the ergonomics, safety and performance promises the language makes.

SmallOther@techhub.social · 1 pts · 2y
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Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Cool! Sounds even more useful than I thought.

Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Is it though?

words_number@programming.dev · 16 pts · 2y

In the large yearly stack overflow survey it has been the "most loved programming language" for the past 8 years in a row and at the moment its admiration is only growing. I don't see anything stop this streak anytime soon. For good reasons.

dessalines@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

For the eighth year in a row, Rust has topped the chart as “the most desired programming language” in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey.

From the very first sentence of the article.

guts@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What's your opinion of Ruby?.

dessalines@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y

Probably the most beautiful-looking language, but doesn't have great performance. Also it's not strictly typed, and garbage-collected. I used to use it for scripts, but now I just script in rust.

Anders429@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Yep, it is.

asal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I don’t know a ton of people who write Rust regularly, but most people at least somewhat familiar with it love the idea of the language.

Though of course actually using the language is a different story, as the compiler can be intimidating.

wviana@lemmy.eco.br · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

as the compiler can be intimidating

I thought compiler messages being way better than others was one of the selling points.

njinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Compiler messages are first in class, but the borrow checker still makes for quite a brutal learning curve

0xsaksham@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y

@njinx @wviana it's amazing at the same time it's annoying 😞

KrankyKong@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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