Rust Leaps Forward on Language Popularity Index (infoworld.com) 59
An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld:
Rust has leaped to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe index of language popularity, scaling to the 13th spot this month, with placement in the top 10 anticipated in an upcoming edition. Previously, Rust has never gone higher than 17th place in the Tiobe Programming Index. Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen attributed Rust's ascent in the just-released July index to a February 2024 U.S. White House report recommending Rust over C/C+ for safety reasons. He also credited the growing community and ecosystem support for the language. "Rust is finally moving up."
The article adds that these rankings are based on "the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors pertaining to languages, examining websites such as Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, and more than 20 others to determine the monthly numbers."
The article adds that these rankings are based on "the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors pertaining to languages, examining websites such as Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, and more than 20 others to determine the monthly numbers."
- Python
- C++
- C
- Java
- C#
- JavaScript
- Go
- Visual Basic
- Fortran
- SQL
Interestingly, Rust has just moved into the top ten on the rival rankings from the rival Pypl Popularity of Programming Language index (which according to the article "assesses how often languages are searched on in Google.")
- Python
- Java
- JavaScript
- C#
- C/C++
- R
- PHP
- TypeScript
- Swift
- Rust
Rust is great and all... (Score:3)
But finding an app it makes sense to use it on is the challenge. Writing Rust code is fun, but frustrating and slow. For services and front end apps, GCed languages are usually a much better choice. That doesn't leave much room for Rust, so it's amazing it's getting the market share it's getting.
I'm using it for a game now, an area where it really shines.
Re:Rust is great and all... (Score:4, Insightful)
I hope Rust just replaces C++. Not C.
If we get into a position where Rust actually has ZERO depreciation creep (Eg doesn't try to remove any functionality, doesn't try to redefine functionality that breaks all backwards compatibility) then it could possibly de-throne C. But until then everyone makes C-bindings because C bindings don't break. (C++ bindings break from C++ Runtime to Runtime, never mind build numbers.)
I see Python eventually being dumped for something that breaks less version to version. Javascript isn't going anywhere no matter how much griping people have about it, but I see more programs cross-compile into javascript to make it run in the browser rather than trying to actually make a non-shitty program.
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I hear you. Rust syntax is verbose and hard to type, IMO. The constant need to hold down shift and type colons drives me nuts!
There should be a language with the sole goal to eliminate the shift key. :)
Re: Rust is great and all... (Score:3)
Here you go, shift-key free programming, here today! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... [wikipedia.org]
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Finally, the tyranny ends!
Re:Rust is great and all... (Score:4, Interesting)
I wouldn't worry about Rust replacing C, or anything else for that matter. You'll find no shortage of 'Rustisms', common patterns and idioms, which hint at more fundamental problems with the language's design. Rust is absolutely a step forward, but I fully expect it to be replaced by a language that does the same things in a simpler and more accessible way.
Python's popularity also continues to baffle me, but so does the simultaneous hate for Javascript. Most of the complaints people have about JS are about dynamic languages in general and apply equally to Python. Despite ECMA's best efforts to destroy it, JS is a surprisingly elegant language at its core, not that far removed from languages like Lisp. It has been deeply misunderstood. Python is also misunderstood, but it benefits from its undeserved reputation. I'll never understand why people put up with it.
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Javascript isn't going anywhere no matter how much griping people have about it, but I see more programs cross-compile into javascript to make it run in the browser rather than trying to actually make a non-shitty program
My prediction is that once WebAssembly gains direct DOM bindings you will see an explosion of alternatives (both shitty and non-shitty) frameworks for client-side apps. When developers can choose one language and use it on both client and server they will gravitate to that.
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I hope Rust just replaces C++. Not C.
Forlorn hope, Rust will never dispace c++. But Rust will continue to drive c++ evolution in useful directions.
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I use python more than anything simply because its just easy. If I beed to figure out how to do something I ask google. Chances are high someone else already asked and there is either an answer or a module already built that does most of what I need. Its my goto sysadmin language nect to shell scripts. I prefer it significantly over Perl.
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Easy is not good enough. The language has to be productive. Firstly, let me admit that the python is pretty high in this metric. Furthermore, I'd probably agree that ten years ago, it was arguably the most productive widely used programming language, given quality of ecosystem in both libraries (numpy, sqlalchemy, django, etc), tooling (jupyter, venv, conda) and ubiquity.
But times have changed, FP influenced statically typed languages made a lot of progress. To me it's not obvious anymore that dynamic typin
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I strongly disagree that Python is "simpler" either "quicker to teach" or well suited for "non-specialists" to use. Python might lack curly braces, but that doesn't make it "simpler". If anything, things like meaningful whitespace, list comprehensions, and inconsistent syntax make it much more difficult for beginners to learn and for 'non-specialists' to use.
I don't know that I could even make an argument for Python as a beginner language or as a language for "non-professionals" over modern alternatives l
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Rust never sleeps.
Hey hey, my my.
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Games and embedded stuff. I'd go down the path of recommending it for kernel, drivers, and many other low level stuff as well.
It is true that the development is slower at first, but it comes with so many more guarantees than the rest of the pack that it's definitely worth it. Note that Java and C# already guarantee memory safety, but thread safety is a real plus IMO.
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Also note that Java and C# are unsuitable for kernel, drivers and many other low-level stuff. Not an accident.
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Microsoft once built an OS around a managed language (C# maybe), with a runtime with GC at the kernel level, running everything including drivers. It's too bad they kept it internal, never heard of a similar effort.
This is great entertainment! (Score:1)
Someone should create a TV show where we vote languages off the island.
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Rust never sleeps (Score:2)
but Fortran users need their little naps.
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I was wondering the same, Fortran at #9? I had a Fortran class in college and have encountered a tiny number of Fortran apps in my professional work. However, #9? No, that makes zero sense.
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You missed my point. I'm old and need naps. :)
I like Fortran and have used it for about 90% of my work over the last 35 years.
All the hydrodynamics codes I have supplied to the US Navy, Defense departments and University Engineering departments were in Fortran.
That's the language they specified because it doesn't need maintenance, and they have nerds who know it well enough to modify what they want.
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Indeed. There is a lot of value in that kind of stability. That Fortran also happens to be easy to use while being exceptionally performant is icing on the cake.
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Oddly enough, my run ins with Fortran were with the DoD, but that was in the 90s. I mainly worked with precompilers at the time and Oracle's Pro*Fortran was under my purview. Apologies to the Fortran jockeys out there, I meant no disrespect, I'm actually a bit jealous to be honest. Must be refreshing to not have to deal with "why don't we switch to" discussions every time something shiny-new pops up.
Re: Rust never sleeps (Score:2)
Oh yeah ... (Score:1)
... and there were "loud noises" and somebody "falling" last night.
But don't worry, we won't post anything about it.
Re: Oh yeah ... (Score:2)
It's not news when basically everyone was expecting it.
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It's not news when basically everyone was expecting it.
I guess that's one way to look at it.
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It's not news when basically everyone was expecting it.
No wonder the MSM ignores the Spanish Inquisition.
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And I'm 100% sure you didn't mean anything else, since you didn't say what that thing would be outright.
I'm rootin for Powershell (Score:3)
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Ugh. PowerShell has some great concepts, but I hate the syntax. Readability of the language sucks.
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nushell is pretty cool. It's object oriented, but with great syntax.
White House Recommendation (Score:4, Funny)
You know you're doing really bad when you need the White House to boost your popularity.
It's like if your mother shows up at the high school to tell your classroom mates how cool you are.
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It seems that your sense of humor is a little rusty.
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So 110 V AC is bad, because the White House recommends it?
Can I ask when and where the White House has recommended it? Nobody is talking about replacing 110v with anything else. Has Rust become political?
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I recall back in the day when the DoD recommended Ada for essentially "safety" reasons. Lots of contracts from the DoD don't ya know. Maybe the White House maps to the DoD since POTUS is commander in chief. AFAIK Ada hasn't been on anyone's top 10 for quite some time.
List of Very Different Languages (Score:3)
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That is why the Rust fanatics jump on it. In a fair comparison, they have nothing.
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This is the bronze medal meme (Score:2)
Leaps, you say? (Score:2)
R is used by like 20 people in the world, and Rust is below it.
Ooookay.
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R is used by like 20 people in the world, and Rust is below it.
I must be privileged because I know 3 people who use it. And they do not even work for the same company. But they work in data analysis so that tracks.
Still irrelevant (Score:2)
That is the _actual_ take-away here. Constant cheerleading does not make a tool good in any way.
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But but but... the article says they're looking at what "skilled engineers" are searching for! So obviously this index can't be just mindlessly counting total web searches being done by just anyone!
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Hehehe. Well, these assholes have found out that facts are harder to come by than lies and manipulative language. Maybe they learned that from the systemd-scum.
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You're gonna hate the Thunderbird thread.
Re:Still irrelevant (Score:4, Insightful)
That is the _actual_ take-away here. Constant cheerleading does not make a tool good in any way.
For fun, I chased some links to the TIOBE index. It explicitly says it's not measuring what language is used to write the most lines of code.
I think it would be fun to great a Gartner-like magic quadrant chart, the axes being "Buzz factor" and "Lines of new code committed to GitHub."
Whatabouts (Score:2)
What about APL? Why isn't APL on this list!!!
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APL? Weakling! Real men use Brainfuck!
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What about APL? Why isn't APL on this list!!!
With any competent APL programmer the list would only require one line.
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Go Visual Basic! (Score:3)
Yeah!
Seriously, What? Why? (Score:2)
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