• Generally the programmers that visit these kinds of websites, let alone participate in a survey, are the enthusiast programmers who are much more likely to be interested in exploring a new language in the first place.

    There’s a considerable potential for a selection bias here. Not that this disproves the survey, but generally these kinds of surveys tend to be a little bit ahead of the curve, so to speak.

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      1 year ago

      True, and in my experience these are the people that are most passionate, end up more easily in senior/lead roles and have a better say in what tech stack get used tomorrow. So I’m betting some of my time and career development on Rust.