> What are we measuring? Lines of code? Number of programmers employed? Number of new applications started?
They're correlated, but number of programmers employed is something that's relatively easy to measure.
> Is this low adoption?
For a language this old? Yes. That people talk so much about specific projects that use Rust only underlines that: Rust is now as old as Java was when JDK 6 came out; older than PHP was when PHP 5 came out or Facebook was launched; older than C++ was when Windows NT came out.
They're correlated, but number of programmers employed is something that's relatively easy to measure.
> Is this low adoption?
For a language this old? Yes. That people talk so much about specific projects that use Rust only underlines that: Rust is now as old as Java was when JDK 6 came out; older than PHP was when PHP 5 came out or Facebook was launched; older than C++ was when Windows NT came out.