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"Supporting Rust by Using Rust" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-H6Hn_i4PQ

I think that once upon a time as c++ was relatively new, it got a faster adoption in the corporate world. There are still very few job offerings that mention rust. I hope that will get better at some point.

C++ was helped by the adoption of C compiler vendors.

So we got two compilers in the box.

Plus having almost copy-paste compatibility with C, meant we could enjoy higher productivity with a more safer language, and leave the other unsafer one on the drawer.

Of course, nowadays we are paying the price of the copy-paste compatibility that helped the language gaining adoption in first place.

I would look more carefully at this figure. As an example, over 20% of Nim devs use Nim at work as well[1], but of course the number of respondents is far smaller so it merits a closer look.

1 - https://nim-lang.org/blog/2017/10/01/community-survey-result...

Jumped out at me too. The link 404s so there's no source for the claim. Plus, what does "use it" mean? They dabbled with it for a small, non-critical application, or they're using it as their primary language in a non-solo project?

The link 404s because of mixing up markdown, you can see the URL is https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/09/05/Rust-2017-Survey-Resul...

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