| > availability and maturity of toolchains Pretty bad situation for Rust. > the rate of release of projects written in that language I guess back in 90s they didn't do grep clones every weekend, so Rust wins here definitely. > the rate of release of books and learning materials And what this data tells us? > the rate at which universities begin teaching the language Pretty bad situation for Rust. > the volume of discourse devoted to that language in magazines and the online venues which did exist (e.g. Usenet) But you need to normalize this volume against total volume of content out there produced every second, and then situation becomes complicated. > crucially the declining metrics of all of the above for the direct competitors of that language Why ignore job offerings? |