alt Hacker News> most existing Rust developers are not "blank slate Rust developers"
Not most, but the pool of software devs has been doubling every five years, and Rust matches C# on "Learning to Code" voters at Stack Overflow's last survey, which is crazy considering how many people learn C# just to use Unity. I think you underestimate how many developers are Rust blank slates.
Anecdotically, I've recently come across comments from people who've taught themselves Rust but not C or C++.
Steve Klabnik?
Either way, that survey (you could have linked to it) has some issues.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular...
Select the "Learning to Code" tab.
> Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year? (If you both worked with the language and want to continue to do so, please check both boxes in that row.)
It describes two check marks, yet only has a single statistic for each language. Did StackOverflow mess up the question or data?
The data also looks suspicious. Is it really the case that 44.6% of developers learning to code have worked with or want to work with C++?