{"id":1228793,"date":"2025-02-22T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1228793"},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T21:34:00","slug":"rust-developer-survey-finds-increasing-usage-especially-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1228793","title":{"rendered":"Rust Developer Survey Finds Increasing Usage, Especially on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"
This year’s “State of Rust” survey was completed by 7,310 Rust developers. DevClass note some key findings:<\/p>\n

When asked about their biggest worries for Rust’s future, 45.5 percent cited “not enough usage in the tech industry,” up from 42.5 percent last year, just ahead of the 45.2 percent who cited complexity as a concern… Only 18.6 percent declared themselves “not worried,” though this is a slight improvement on 17.8 percent in 2023…
\nAnother question asks whether respondents are using Rust at work. 38.2 percent claimed to use it for most of their coding [up from 34% in 2023], and 13.4 percent a few times a week, accounting for just over half of responses. At the organization level there is a similar pattern. 45.5 percent of organizations represented by respondents make “non-trivial use of Rust,” up from 38.7 percent last year. <\/p>\n

More details from I Programmer:<\/p>\n

On the up are “Using Rust helps us achieve or goals”, now 82% compared to 72% in 2022; “We’re likely to use Rust again in the future”, up 3% to 78%; and “Using Rust has been worth the cost of Adoption”. Going down are “Adopting Rust has been challenging”, now 34.5% compared to 38.5% in 2022; and “Overall adopting Rust has slowed down our team” down by over 2% to 7%. <\/p>\n

“According to the survey, organizations primarily choose Rust for building correct and bug-free software (87.1%), performance characteristics (84.5%), security and safety properties (74.8%), and development enjoyment (71.2%),” writes The New Stack:<\/p>\n

Rust seems to be especially popular for creating server backends (53.4%), web and networking services, cloud technologies and WebAssembly, the report said. It also seems to be gaining more traction for embedded use cases… Regarding the preferred development environment, Linux remains the dominant development platform (73.7%). <\/p>\n

However, although VS Code remains the leading editor, its usage dropped five percentage points, from 61.7% to 56.7%, but the Zed editor gained notable traction, from 0.7% to 8.9%. Also, “nine out of 10 Rust developers use the current stable version, suggesting strong confidence in the language’s stability,” the report said… <\/p>\n

Overall, 82% of respondents report that Rust helped their company achieve its goals, and daily Rust usage increased to 53% (up four percentage points from 2023). When asked why they use Rust at work, 47% of respondents cited a need for precise control over their software, which is up from 37% when the question was asked two years ago.<\/p>\n

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