[baranul]

Sadly, this appears to be true. For whatever strange reasons, Rust (and Zig) are glazed and hyped beyond any sense and way out of proportion to their language rankings (see TIOBE)[1]. Rust is not even in the TIOBE top 10. Zig is barely in their top 50.

These two languages look like they have a weird kind of "protected and special status" on HN. Other programming language don't get anything like the push and special treatment that these do.

[1]: https://archive.md/sJRyf (TIOBE Index Novemeber 2025)