Rust language utilization is growing, however builders who determine as former Rust customers cited problem as their major motive for staying away, in accordance with the not too long ago launched 2022 State of Rust Survey.
Extra builders are utilizing Rust than ever earlier than, with greater than 90% of the respondents to the annual survey figuring out as Rust customers, with 47% of these utilizing Rust each day (a rise of 4% from 2021). The 2022 State of Rust Survey was carried out in December 2022, attracting 9,433 survey completions. The outcomes had been launched August 7. This was the sixth yr the survey had been carried out.
The December 2022 survey additionally discovered that 30% of Rust customers can write easy applications within the language, 27% can write production-ready code, and 42% contemplate themselves productive utilizing Rust. Amongst former Rust customers—a minority of respondents—30% cited problem as the first motive for giving up the language, whereas practically 47% cited elements exterior their management.
Different elements cited by the builders now not utilizing Rust had been choice for an additional language, lacking libraries, and Rust not serving to to realize their targets. Builders not figuring out as Rust customers cited problem, elements exterior their management, and choice for an additional language as causes for not utilizing the language.
Different outcomes from the 2022 State of Rust Survey:
- 29.7% said they use Rust for almost all of coding work at their office, a 51.8% rise in comparison with the prior yr.
- Causes for utilizing Rust included the perceived skill to put in writing “bug-free software program,” efficiency traits, and safety and security ensures.
- The principle worries for the way forward for Rust included issues concerning the language changing into too advanced (38%) and issues that builders and maintainers behind Rust weren’t correctly supported (26%). However 34% weren’t anxious in any respect about the way forward for Rust.
- The highest 5 international locations represented within the survey had been the US (25%), Germany (12%), China (7%), the UK (6%), and France (5%).
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