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A THIRD of all Rust devs are trans?
by _zagj 2y ago
A THIRD of all Rust devs are trans?
- Lockal 2y agoNo, only 5% (31% out of 17%) out of people who participate in DEI surveys, see full post https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Surve...
- defrost 2y agoTransitioned from C. The percentage is greater but few will admit to it.
- 082349872349872 2y agoNonsense. People are born to use only two kinds of programming languages: either those which everyone complains about, or those which no one else uses. Never the twain shall meet.
- defrost 2y agoEven TypeScript Exclusionary Rabid FORTRAN coders have 'experimented' with Haskell after dark.
- xooxo 2y agoYes but that mostly includes those who've attached themselves to fashionable identity groups, and not just the much, much smaller number of those medically diagnosed, the latter of whom aren't just following a trend.
- _zagj 2y agoIt's still striking. The national average of people self-identifying as trans/non-binary is only 1.6%: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-say-their-gender-is-different-from-their-sex-assigned-at-birth/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/07/about-5-o... Even if you only compare with the 18-29 demographic, where the prevalence is higher at 5.6%, it's still 6x as high in the Rust community.