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Rust

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Rust's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
02.557.510AprMayJunJulAugSept
Rust%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: rust
02000400060006 Jul20 Jul10 Aug24 Aug21 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
rust

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Rust. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 1
  2. 17 Aug 3
  3. 24 Aug 1
  4. 31 Aug 2
  5. 7 Sept 4
  6. 14 Sept 2
  7. 21 Sept 2
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 1
  10. 12 Oct 1
  11. 19 Oct 2
  12. 26 Oct 10

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust962 pts · 402 comments · 16 Sept
  2. 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker744 pts · 434 comments · 13 Oct
  3. Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft722 pts · 504 comments · 10 Sept
  4. Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload547 pts · 496 comments · 20 Aug
  5. Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust442 pts · 104 comments · 10 Sept
  6. Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust430 pts · 212 comments · 20 Oct
  7. Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM415 pts · 105 comments · 21 Aug
  8. Rust Style Guide387 pts · 252 comments · 21 Oct

Bets on Rust

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