No surprise here, Rust users are physically incapable of going 10 seconds without mentioning that they use Rust.
The anti-Rust comments, like yours, are irritating, off-topic, and not adding anything to the discussion. If you want to start a language flamewar, there are better places to do it.
I also think this study is slightly biased towards new and hip languages. For example, less people are going to vocalize that their new web app is made with Javascript, because that's already the assumption. But Elixir will almost certainly be mentioned
It's hard to say for most because, well, it's closed source. Unless they talk about it publicly like Discord, we won't know.
Had it been something like `ripgrep` -- which is open but yeah imagine it wasn't -- then I'd immediately agree with you.
And now I'm confused what point you're trying to make?
I mean, commercial products written in many languages are closed source and I don't feel that reflects negatively on any of them.
Sorry if it's a wrong assumption then.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952084 (this one’s funny because the team pulled the rug on their users after a month or two)
When people point these out I feel obliged to mention they are hardly unique to any language.
I guess I asked because your comment was directly under a fairly ridiculous comment being fairly insulting to the Rust community, so I wondered if you want to point out deficiencies that are supposedly only present in Rust?
If not, my apologies for mentioning it.
In all seriousness, I like reading about them all, because they do tend to move the needle in the right direction.
Point being, Rust might be even more popular than what this post suggests. But then again that could go for any other language. Apart from Rust I also work with Elixir a lot and I know that most of its devs are not at all vocal; they're too busy being successful and don't need external validation -- they know the benefits of the tech and are using it to their full advantage.
I know that I do that, and I know others. Both with Elixir and Rust.
Nuance, please. There is not only the 0% and the 100%.
It's ok that you are vocal about them from time to time, but claiming how you are silent about that is simply untrue: you could have stopped after the first sentence, or not brought Elixir into the discussion at the very least.