2024 Rust Survey Results: Thriving Community, but Compilation Speed Remains a Hurdle

2025-02-22
2024 Rust Survey Results: Thriving Community, but Compilation Speed Remains a Hurdle

The 2024 Rust survey results are in! While participation was slightly lower than last year, the community remains vibrant, and Rust usage continues to grow, especially in professional settings. The survey reveals high satisfaction with Rust's performance and safety, but compilation speed remains a key challenge, followed by debugging support and disk space usage. Encouragingly, many developers are optimistic about Rust's future and look forward to the stabilization of more features, such as async closures.

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