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And yet Go is much more popular than Rust.
by Thaxll 4y ago
And yet Go is much more popular than Rust.
- shakow 4y agoAnd PHP is more popular than both of them, so it's not tomorrow that gauging the qualities of a language on the use the vulgum pecus makes of it will be a good idea.
- Smaug123 4y ago… is it? For example, the Stack Overflow survey says Rust was loved by 86% of its users, while Go by 64%. Rust also beat Go on the percentage of respondents who wanted to use it. (But Golang was used by 2% more respondents than Rust, at 11.15% vs 9.32%.) https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...
- morelisp 4y agoDescribing that as "2% more" instead of "20% more" is a bit misleading when comparing just two items.
- Smaug123 4y agoSorry, I intended to say "2% more of the respondents". That was what I had in my mind when I wrote it. (In general, my opinion is that Relative Statistics Considered Harmful, they're like absolute statistics but with all the context removed, and I never intend to give them.)