It's comparing apples to turntables. IEEE is a mixed weight of Jobs+Trending. What you linked to is SO's "most loved" where the question asked is: "Which prog

It's comparing apples to turntables. IEEE is a mixed weight of Jobs+Trending. What you linked to is SO's "most loved" where the question asked is: "Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)" As of now, Rust is beloved, but there are few jobs (outside of crypto grifting), especially relative to the hype and relative to other languages, and most projects are 1-person projects or a handful at most. EDIT: here's a better graph to compare: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technologies-language-prof https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog...