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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by camgunz on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:28PM (#44627896)
I don't think millions of people use either Rust or Swift.
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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by Kranar on Sunday July 20, 2025 @03:44PM (#44628641)
Millions of people don't use Go either.
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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by camgunz on Sunday July 20, 2025 @04:20PM (#44628937)
You got me
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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by moltonel3x on Monday July 21, 2025 @07:51AM (#44634116)
According to SlashData "size of programming language communities, Q1 2025":

   28.0M JS+TS
   ...
   5.6M Swift
   5.1M Rust
   5.0M Go
They have measured Rust growing faster than Go over the years, with the overtake finally happening in Q1 this year.

There aren't a lot of reports presenting absolute numbers and not biased toward a handful of platforms or ecosystems. If you know of other good free ones, feel free to share.

https://research.slashdata.co/reports/6814fddffed4a97023eab0...

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Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust by camgunz on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @08:45AM (#44646194)
This is pretty intriguing but it wants me to make an account? Can I view it w/o doing that?

EDIT: also I gotta say these numbers seem kinda high. It's hard for me to imagine there's ~28m JS programmers worldwide; that's 1/286 people in the entire world, and the ratio gets less believable as you shrink down the number of people who might have any access at all to a computer/internet/etc. Unless this definition is super broad, I'm quite skeptical.

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