> I believe there is a larger group of Rust programmers
Is there ? This is a genuine question - I've tried rust back in 2013 and have been following it from the outside not using it for anything serious since I haven't had a use case. My impression is that it's still a niche language with and their user base seems to be very involved and engaged. It don't have the impression that there are a lot of companies that are "just doing their job with Rust and not making a lot of noise about it" - if a company is using Rust for something it's probably writing an engineering blogpost about it and the guy who spearheaded it is probably active within the community. I'm just basing this on the amount of Rust posts vs the amount of Rust use/job postings in those quiet, doing their thing companies.
But that's my point - I knew about every one of those except discord just by following Rust marginally. Also Microsoft and Google etc. reported using it for various bits and peaces.
My impression is that if a company does something in Rust there's going to be blogposts about it and the engineers involved are active community members.
OP argued that there is a silent majority working along on Rust as is and getting caught unexpectedly with the changes - I'm just not seeing that.
It's a legitimate question. I can't be sure there is such a silent majority. I do know there are a dozen people using Rust at my company, none well-known, and we haven't blogged about it or publicised it.
> My impression is that if a company does something in Rust there's going to be blogposts about it and the engineers involved are active community members.
You must recognise that this is pure availability bias, right?
>You must recognise that this is pure availability bias, right?
I'm comparing to stuff I hear from local dev community and job postings - but again this is just my impression - I'd like to see some actual stats on this .
Is there ? This is a genuine question - I've tried rust back in 2013 and have been following it from the outside not using it for anything serious since I haven't had a use case. My impression is that it's still a niche language with and their user base seems to be very involved and engaged. It don't have the impression that there are a lot of companies that are "just doing their job with Rust and not making a lot of noise about it" - if a company is using Rust for something it's probably writing an engineering blogpost about it and the guy who spearheaded it is probably active within the community. I'm just basing this on the amount of Rust posts vs the amount of Rust use/job postings in those quiet, doing their thing companies.