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> The usage of both D and Rust is notoriously low in the industry Rust usage is not "notoriously low" (don't know how you came to believe that) and it's growin
by nicolashahn 4y ago
> The usage of both D and Rust is notoriously low in the industry
Rust usage is not "notoriously low" (don't know how you came to believe that) and it's growing very rapidly. The fact that it's a major supported language at Meta is evidence enough to the contrary, not to mention the plethora of post titles on HN that end with "in Rust", or are about rewriting in Rust (some of these are personal projects but many are company blog posts). I haven't seen any for D. Also just looked at the 2022 June Who's Hiring thread and ctrl-f "rust" found 23 matches, though admittedly that doesn't mean there are 23 jobs using Rust there.
I wouldn't trust Indeed, personally I've found it to be pretty bad for programming jobs, and definitely not representative of the industry (especially estimated salary, it's been wildly off for every company I've been at).
I just tried searching for a few language popularity studies, any that I found did not even include D. The StackOverflow 2022 dev survey says that Rust is both the most loved and wanted language: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-language-want https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-loved-dreaded-and...
- girvo 4y agoRusts usage in industry absolutely is notoriously low when in comparison to C++ though (as is D’s) That’s changing of course but HN’s bubble is just that, a bubble.
- nicolashahn 4y agoMy issue was with lumping in Rust with D when saying they both have "notoriously low usage" when Rust has, conservatively, probably >10x the usage of D.
- CraigJPerry 4y ago>> don't know how you came to believe that Hardly any job postings. No large projects on github. No halo project (does servo count? It’s not gone anywhere yet, is it still alive?). There’s an echo chamber around the language.
- nicolashahn 4y ago> Hardly any job postings. Job postings that mention using Rust from July 2022 Who's Hiring thread alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31948363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31948363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32070322 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31969755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31969755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31949096 > No large projects on github. No halo project Take your pick: https://github.com/search?l=Rust&o=desc&q=rust&s=stars&type=Repositories https://github.com/search?l=Rust&o=desc&q=rust&s=stars&type=... Deno has 84k stars.