• thingsiplay@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @Arbitrary Despite having more languages available for the survey than ever before (11), less people participated in the survey than last year (6.4% decrease 2022 compared to 2021). That’s not healthy and a sign that people are less interested in the future of Rust. For the question why people stopped using Rust, the top answer is “Factors outside my control”.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think that’s a sign of less interest. It’s probably just that it wasn’t shared as widely as the previous survey. Social media gives somewhat random attention like that sometimes.

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        @SorteKanin That’s not just random attention difference. In fact, Rust got a lot of attention due to the integration into Linux Kernel and the multiple dramas that happened.

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      I only participated in two surveys, the first, then the second or third (don’t remember).

      I am here. So, while I’m not sure, I think I’m still interested 😑

      Maybe gauging level of interest based on the number of survey participants is not a sound strategy 🤔

      I think there used to be a question about how long you’ve known/used Rust. And you would find that new or relatively new users were always overrepresented. Although, maybe that over-representation was read wrongly at times.

      If I had to speculate something based on this decline, I would guess that most people who were to give Rust a try at some point, have actually done so already. So the influx of people new to the language, where for them the novelty (and the excitement/resentment that comes with it) hasn’t worn off already, has slowed down.

      I’d say that’s understandable, and is to be expected after many years of hyped existence.