Why Rust will keep growing in 2024 [LIVE]

Let’s look at why #rustlang is going to continue to grow this year.

The 2023 was a bit of a difficult year for the Rust community. You might have heard people complaining about a draft trademark policy which turned into this kind of huge melodramatic internet fight, like a cake fight or something. and there was a lot of animosity about whether or not this language is going to get overrun by zig it might get destroyed by carbon it might which is a programming language developed by google and a whole bunch of other things and like uh but i kind of want to say

You know what?

Let’s look at the evidence and take a look because I’m pretty sure that Rust is going to continue to grow through 2024 and through 2025 and become one of the central pieces of software infrastructure for the next, I don’t know, several decades and it is a solid bit and I am totally up for your sort of rage bait comments if you want to add them.

References:

Crates.io statistics https://lib.rs/stats
Subreddit growth https://subredditstats.com/r/rust
rust-analyzer adoption https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rust-lang.rust-analyzer&ssr=false
Rust Rover IDE https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
David Weston tweet https://twitter.com/dwizzzleMSFT/status/1720134540822520268
NSA paper on memory safety https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/The-Case-for-Memory-Safe-Roadmaps-508c.pdf
Memory safe languages in Android https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html
Rust in the Linux Kernel https://thenewstack.io/rust-in-the-linux-kernel/
C/C++ deprecated https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-languages-its-time-to-stop-using-c-and-c-for-new-projects-says-microsoft-azure-cto/
NTP rewritten in Rust https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/75/implementing-the-network-time-protocol-ntp-in-rust
Prossimo projects https://www.memorysafety.org/

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