Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
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Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#2Wow, ~180 people with projects more than 100000 lines.
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#3The first diagram shows that 35.5% of respondents don't use, or stopped using, rust.
Its a shame they don't break this down between those who have never used it vs those who have stopped using it.
At the end of the results there's talk about why those who don't use rust don't use it, but again it doesn't separate out why people have never used it vs why people have stopped using it.
I imagine it would be a very interesting to have had this split.
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#4The first diagram shows that 35.5% of respondents don't use, or stopped using , rust. Its a shame they don't break this down between those who have never used it vs those who have stopped using it. At the end of the results there's talk about why those who don't use rust don't use it, but again it doesn't separate out why people have never used it vs why people have stopped using it. I imagine it would be a very inte…
Note that we tried to publicize the survey amongst non-Rustaceans, so I expect most of these respondents are those who never used it in the first place. We got an overwhelming positive response, especially in the freeform comments.
There's also:
> Equally encouraging is seeing that once someone has become a Rust user, they tend to stick around and continue using it. One might expect a sharp drop-off if users became quickly disenchanted and moved onto other technologies. Instead, we see the opposite. Users that come in and stay past their initial experiences tend to stay long-term, with a fairly even spread between 3 months to 12 months (when we first went 1.0).
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#5Wow, ~180 people with projects more than 100000 lines.
All / most of them are likely Servo contributors.
Servo: https://servo.org/
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#6Hmmm. That 20% of Rust users identify as part of an 'underrepresented group' does not seem like poor number. I would naively guess that it is a larger percentage than exists in the overall technical population. If that's correct, then bravo Rust!
(If anyone knows about numbers along those lines, I'd love to hear about it.)
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#7The first diagram shows that 35.5% of respondents don't use, or stopped using , rust. Its a shame they don't break this down between those who have never used it vs those who have stopped using it. At the end of the results there's talk about why those who don't use rust don't use it, but again it doesn't separate out why people have never used it vs why people have stopped using it. I imagine it would be a very inte…
Note that we tried to publicize the survey amongst non-Rustaceans, so I expect most of these respondents are those who never used it in the first place. We got an overwhelming positive response, especially in the freeform comments. There's also: > Equally encouraging is seeing that once someone has become a Rust user, they tend to stick around and continue using it. One might expect a sharp drop-off if users became q…
Thanks for your work guys. I took part in the survey when I found it on Reddit. Yesterday I started my first project in two new technologies, Rust and GTK. That's completely different experience and perspective of designing code after years of C++(Qt) and Java(backend). Now I wish I was earlier adopter :)
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#8How come there are as many women (47) answering this survey as trans people? Is there anything in the Rust community that is hostile to women but not trans people?
In fact trans people appear to be over-represented in this survey as 1.7% of people in it were trans compared to optimistic 0.3% of the US being transgender [0]
[0] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-US-population-i...
Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#9Re: Results of Rust Survey 2016 – early draft for internal usage
#10Hmmm. That 20% of Rust users identify as part of an 'underrepresented group' does not seem like poor number. I would naively guess that it is a larger percentage than exists in the overall technical population. If that's correct, then bravo Rust! (If anyone knows about numbers along those lines, I'd love to hear about it.)
Amazing how a bigger focus is placed on getting certain demographics to use a programming language rather than focusing on improvement of the language itself.