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Comment by jntrnr | Hacker News Reader

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Hi all - thanks for the interest in the survey! The Rust community team is still working the blog post (this link was to an early draft), and we're looking forward to posting it when it's done.

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I think this survey was very poorly publicized. As somebody who only dabbles in Rust, this is the first I have heard of this survey. I am sure that others are in the same boat as I am. We would have participated, but we learned about it weeks after it closed!

Only now do I see the blog article, and a submission here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11661056] that got no traction. I don't remember seeing any sort of a notice on the main Rust web site.

The fact that many participants were excluded, albeit unintentionally, makes me really question the completeness, and hence the validity and usefulness, of this survey data.

This survey was publicized in all official channels including this week in rust, mentioned in the 1 year of rust announcement, on Hacker News (we cannot control traction), on the subreddit, the users forum, our Twitter account (where it also got huge traction) and literally all our other venues. We got a huge amount of replies.

I'm not sure how this is "poorly publicized".

Why was a link apparently not in the most obvious place, on the https://www.rust-lang.org/ web site? A small notice across the top would not have been disruptive, yet I and others would have seen it.

We put a great deal of effort into publicizing the survey, with a special focus on public spaces and piggybacking on highly-visible announcements. The website's front page sees less traffic than e.g. HN or the Rust subreddit, so it's not hard to imagine why nobody considered putting it there. It certainly wouldn't have hurt to have had it there, and I'm sure we'll consider putting it there for next year's survey, but we're quite happy with the several thousand respondents that we received.

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