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comcuoglu on July 4, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who...

In total numbers I got 539 jobs saying that they want Rust experience and 695 want Go experience. I think I should have added another line-chart showing the programming language distribution over time, thanks for the idea.

jamestimmins on July 4, 2024 [–]

Thanks for looking this up. It's especially interesting bc if I search "golang" on LinkedIn jobs, I see 5,185 results (in the US), but I only get 148 results for "rust".

Hardly scientific, but shows the risk of using Hacker News to draw overly strong conclusions of language popularity.

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