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Identifying Barriers to Adoption for Rust through Online Discourse

Anna Zeng, Will Crichton

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Abstract

Rust is a low-level programming language known for its unique approach to memory-safe systems programming and for its steep learning curve. To understand what makes Rust difficult to adopt, we surveyed the top Reddit and Hacker News posts and comments about Rust; from these online discussions, we identified three hypotheses about Rust's barriers to adoption. We found that certain key features, idioms, and integration patterns were not easily accessible to new users.

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Journal reference
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools, 2018
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cs.HCHuman-Computer Interaction cs.PLProgramming Languages

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