Re: Most Popular Programming Languages

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

(Is that harsh? I am not disappointed to see PHP absent from the Tiobe
top 10, but I am mystified by the absence of Rust, and the presence of
Visual Basic and Delphi, in same.)

i've only done some basic reading about, and playing around with, Rust
(including submitting a simple PR for a Rust-based project), and
although there are various things i like about it, Rust:

* has only recently got some sort of formal spec:

  https://thenewstack.io/rust-gets-its-missing-piece-official-spec-finally-arrives/

* at least in October last year, was still moving quickly enough that
  various Rust-based applications were relying on nightly builds, as
  experienced by one of the Gentoo devs:

  https://lwn.net/Articles/992559/

* has only a relatively limited number of platforms with tier 1
  ("guaranteed to work") support when compared to e.g. C++:

  https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/platform-support.html

  and although the list of tier 2 targets is noticeably larger, tier 2
  targets are only "guaranteed to _build_".

Then, too, there's things like this game dev's experience with giving
Rust a red-hot go:

  https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

So i'm not surprised it's not yet in the top 10, although i'm almost
certain it will continue to head in that direction.


Alexis.