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.
    • words_number@programming.dev
      16·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • DessalinesOPA
      10·
      10 months ago

      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
        3·
        10 months ago

        What’s your opinion of Ruby?.

        • DessalinesOPA
          4·
          10 months ago

          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.

    • asal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      10 months ago

      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·
        10 months ago

        as the compiler can be intimidating

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

        • njinx@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

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

  • Flori@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    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.