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by tyleo 874 days ago
And yet Rust was the fastest growing language on GitHub last year according to the 2023 review.

Ideally it would be easy to learn a language… but the claim that it’s ‘doomed’ if not does not appear to align with data.

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-the-state-of-open-source-and-...

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It's easy to grow a small adoption in terms of percentage.

I grew my boiled eggs consumption by 100% yesterday.

Java/C#/C++ could never grow 40% in a year even if their absolute growth surpassed Rust by a wide margin.