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"Besides being superior to C# in regards to better memory protections, Rust is also more popular with developers these days and might be easier to recruit for"

"Besides being superior to C# in regards to better memory protections, Rust is also more popular with developers these days and might be easier to recruit for" Citation needed. I'm quite sure the pool of C#/.NET devs right now is quite a bit larger than the pool of Rust devs, to be honest, if anything for the sheer amount of headstart that C# has got over Rust.

mattmanser 7y ago
Especially as he mentions SO: C#: 450 asked today, 2548 this week Rust: 14 asked today, 82 this week Yeah, sooooo much more popular.
- adamnemecek 7y ago
  There might also be the aspect that Rust programmers ask fewer questions due to the fact for example that C# might be taught in a university whereas Rust programmers come to the language mostly on their own.
  - CameronNemo 7y ago
    Would that not skew questions toward Rust, where people rely on online resources to learn the language and cannot first ask questions ~~during office hours~~ on piazza?
    - 0_gravitas 7y ago
      I hang out a every once in a while in the Rust discord (official and comminity) and theres always a bunch of questions, probably close to the amount of what SO shows. I haven't dipped into it myself but from what I hear the Rust book (available for free on their site) and documentation are really good. So maybe that in combination with other tutorials is a reason why SO isnt so active. It's a similar deal with Elixir, elixir SO isnt too active because almost everything is asked on the Elixir forums, so if you go with SO as your sole popularity meter you're not always going to come away with accurate conclusions.
      - adamnemecek 7y ago
        Can you link to the Rust Discord servers?
        steveklabnik 7y ago
        https://discordapp.com/invite/rust-lang https://discordapp.com/invite/rust-lang for the team's server https://discordapp.com/invite/aVESxV8 https://discordapp.com/invite/aVESxV8 for the community server
        adamnemecek 7y ago
        thx
SomeOldThrow 7y ago
I imagine they intended 'hyped' there (& not as a pejorative).

mattmanser 7y ago

Especially as he mentions SO: C#: 450 asked today, 2548 this week Rust: 14 asked today, 82 this week Yeah, sooooo much more popular.

adamnemecek 7y ago
There might also be the aspect that Rust programmers ask fewer questions due to the fact for example that C# might be taught in a university whereas Rust programmers come to the language mostly on their own.
- CameronNemo 7y ago
  Would that not skew questions toward Rust, where people rely on online resources to learn the language and cannot first ask questions ~~during office hours~~ on piazza?
  - 0_gravitas 7y ago
    I hang out a every once in a while in the Rust discord (official and comminity) and theres always a bunch of questions, probably close to the amount of what SO shows. I haven't dipped into it myself but from what I hear the Rust book (available for free on their site) and documentation are really good. So maybe that in combination with other tutorials is a reason why SO isnt so active. It's a similar deal with Elixir, elixir SO isnt too active because almost everything is asked on the Elixir forums, so if you go with SO as your sole popularity meter you're not always going to come away with accurate conclusions.
    - adamnemecek 7y ago
      Can you link to the Rust Discord servers?
      - steveklabnik 7y ago
        https://discordapp.com/invite/rust-lang https://discordapp.com/invite/rust-lang for the team's server https://discordapp.com/invite/aVESxV8 https://discordapp.com/invite/aVESxV8 for the community server
        adamnemecek 7y ago
        thx

SomeOldThrow 7y ago

I imagine they intended 'hyped' there (& not as a pejorative).