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by b20000 693 days ago
most loved?
3 comments

From the article...

"When the coder discussion board Stack Overflow conducts its annual poll of developers around the world, Rust has been rated the most “loved” programming language for seven years running."

Also most loved by the US government apparently. We got a memo about it straight from the Whitehouse.
Who is "we"?

Also, the French intelligence agency GCHQ has an entire mini book on how to write safe code with Rust btw.

GCHQ is British, I think the French equivalent would be DGSE.
Whoops, you are right. Thanks for the correction. Here's one link about the French agency:

https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/actualite/be-part-of-anssis-new-g...

The public
Some developers don't need stackoverflow. /s
Have you seen the GH surveys? Yes, most loved
Online surveys more often than not fail to be representative of anything other than which group advertised the survey the most.
This comment will be 10x funnier 10 years into the future.

What will it be then, "those 50% of the world who use Rust are not real programmers"? Or "the agencies and the governments got duped by zealots"?

I am curious what will be the future narrative. Care to give some hints?

> What will it be then, "those 50% of the world who use Rust are not real programmers"?

So many of them will be needed to make rust code compile with the latest compiler version and the latest standard library ? Or porting code they wrote 2 months before to the new compiler ? /s

I enjoy fiction as well. What you described does not happen.
I would liken Rust to Justin Bieber: I really don't care for it (I'll take Lisp/Kreator), but there are a great many people who love it. De gustibus non est disputandum, as they say.