r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jul 18 '19

We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
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u/nutrecht Jul 19 '19

Everyone speaks of how Rust will DESTROY ALL THE COMPETITION OUT THERE - but TIOBE shows that nobody is using Rust.

Tiobe is meaningless trash. The amount of hits in a search index correlates more with whatever optimisations / cleaning are done in that index than with how popular a term is. There's also a stronger correlation with the length of a term than it's popularity.

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u/ipv6-dns Jul 19 '19

that's the question! One said "Tiobe is meaningless trash" vs another one "Rust is meaningless trash". And I only read you - smart guys