I think the "difficult to learn" and "difficult to onboard" is important to keeping rust a "Most Loved Programming Language". If only those who make it through

I think the "difficult to learn" and "difficult to onboard" is important to keeping rust a "Most Loved Programming Language". If only those who make it through the "difficult to onboard" phase use the language extensively, then only they will be responding to the "most loved"/"most dreaded" question. I taught a university seminar that looked at rust and another emerging language a couple of years ago and only 2 students out of 30 said they would use rust again after the class. So the rest will never get a chance to answer the survey question about rust.