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By that argument, Rust would never have seen the rate of adoption it has. IMO a more likely cause is (quoting grandparent) the lack of integration with standar
by hollerith 5y ago
By that argument, Rust would never have seen the rate of adoption it has.
IMO a more likely cause is (quoting grandparent) the lack of integration with standard versioning systems and the monolithic nature of the Smalltalk image concept.
- unreal37 5y agoAccording to TIBOE, Rust has 0.54% adoption. The 29th most popular programming language. So perhaps there's something to the argument that the difficulty of the language paradigm affects adoption.
- hollerith 5y agoI started to write a list of reasons why no one should use TIOBE for anything, but suffice to say according to same web page you got your figure from, Javascript has 2.66% "adoption": https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ "Adoption" by the way is your word and does not appear on that page.
- peterkelly 5y agoAnd assembly language follows JavaScript at 8th place, above SQL and PHP.