2024 State of Rust: The Rust Foundation asks Devs why and where

Research Published

February 13, 2025

Link to research

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results.html

Comments

Conducted by the Rust Foundation. 7,310 completed surveys in December 2024. Rust is being used more regularly, and it is more likely to be used on the job. (see two charts below that have arrows on them). When asked why they use Rust at work, 47% cite a need precise control over their software, which is up from 37% when the question was asked 2 years ago.

Demographic or Methodology comments

Topic Tags

RustDevelopers

Sample

Survey ContactsSelf-selected via community and social channels

Data Source

Survey

Cadence Score

Demographics

Other link

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/surveys/main/surveys/2024-annual-survey/report/annual-survey-2024-report.pdf

Created time

Feb 19, 2025 9:35 PM

Directory name

The Rightstack Research DB