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The reason it is popular is that the developers who are working with it right now have most likely chosen to do so, as those are greenfield projects. There simp
by MrBuddyCasino 4y ago
The reason it is popular is that the developers who are working with it right now have most likely chosen to do so, as those are greenfield projects. There simply aren't enough old projects written in Rust around to have people be forced to work with them due to sheer market inertia.
Companies need people to maintain codebases that were started 20 years ago, this is simply not the case for Rust.
- Jweb_Guru 4y agoWe've been hearing this theory since Rust was a much smaller percentage of the total responses. With an order of magnitude more developers using the language, you'd expect this high "loved" rating to have slipped considerably, at least behind less commonly used languages, but it hasn't. So I no longer really buy this theory; I think it's centered in the idea that real improvements to programming languages aren't possible, and familiarity / enthusiasm trumps everything.