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Rust Leaps Forward on Language Popularity Index
Sunday July 14, 2024. 01:34 PM , from Slashdot
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.' 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 Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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