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> However, only 9.3% of respondents used Rust at all and only 8.8% did so professionally. C++, meanwhile, languished at 48%.

I mean... it sounds like there's a lot of C++ programmers?

I guess the problem is that "talented" C++ programmers are rare. But... "talented programmers" in general are rare.

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It's a poorly written sentence. The key idea is: "Rust got an 87% approval rate in the "most loved" category of the Stack Overflow Survey. [...] C++, meanwhile, languished at 48%"

Thanks.

The number I was looking for was in a paragraph earlier, that I somehow missed when I made my post earlier

> So where have all the C++ developers gone? The Stack Overflow Survey 2022 reported almost a drop of almost two percentage points in respondents this past year using C++ (from 24.3% to 22.5%), even while the percentage of professional developers using it rose. The good news, though, is that 34.7% of respondents learning to code are using C++, placing it in the top 6 programming languages of that category.

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