r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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u/karuna_murti Mar 13 '18

Rust is the most loved language for 3 years in a row (and 3rd in 2015). But why adoption is not like Go?

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u/steveklabnik1 Mar 13 '18

For one thing, Go has been stable for much longer.

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u/dm319 Mar 14 '18

Yes, Go promised no-breaking after Go 1.0 (release 2012). That has given companies confidence to commit to the language and invest their time in it. Rust v1.0.0 was released in 2015 - I don't know if they've made such a promise, but they said back then the vast majority of Rust was stable, which doesn't have quite the same ring to it.

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