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Why is rust so loved yet no one uses it?

I was looking at the stack overflow developer survey and rust is the most loved language. Why? What does rust have that makes most developers like it? Also if it's so loved why is it not as talked about / doesn't have as many courses on it? (For example there is no rust courses in sololearn) I get this question is extremely open ended but this makes me wonder so I figured I'd ask it anyway.

7th Jul 2018, 2:21 AM
Buckeroo
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Because its a fairly new language and version 1.0 was released in 2015 so most people are still using the official book and documentation to teach themselves. I've been reading intro to rust and its not quite noob friendly but nothing is stopping you from learning it on your own in baby steps c;
9th Jul 2018, 6:06 AM
AeternuS
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Not entirely sure about it being “loved” but... I’m guessing its because its purpose is to create a c++ like language focused on performance, mem and thread safety, etc. but even more standardized (i.e. not as many versions built on top of the other). Mind you, I just stumbled upon it a couple of days ago and got curious. Not sure about some of the hype yet (i’ll fiddle around with it a bit if i can in the near future). As a note to any interested the 2018 version of the documentation is up in www.rust-lang.org and you can get some extra game dev libraries and engines in arewegameyet.com. To be fair, most of these were also quite recent so AeternuS conclusion is the most likely.
6th Aug 2018, 9:07 PM
A.A.
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