Insights from the 2023 Rust Survey: Usage, Challenges, and Future Outlook

Today I will share the topic. Recently, the Rust research team released the 2023 survey report.

The investigation has been ongoing for eight years, attracting many maintainers, contributors, and those interested in the future development of Rust projects.

The Rust Status Survey for 2023 was conducted from December 18, 2023 to January 15, 2024. The Rust team is committed to exploring a more efficient and sustainable process to collect and analyze data more quickly, in order to provide the community with deeper and more valuable insights.

Rust users, distribution proportion ranking

The top 10 countries are: US (22%), Germany (12%), China (6%), United Kingdom (6%), France (6%), Canada (3%), Russia (3%), Netherlands (3%), Japan (3%) and Poland (3%).

Most Rust users surveyed once again stated that they are most willing to communicate technical topics in English, with a proportion of 92.7%, slightly different from 93% in 2022. Similarly, Chinese is the second highest choice for technical communication language, at 6.1% (compared to 7% in 2022).