Fun facts about Rust’s growing popularity30 Oct 2017 There are now 100 friends of Rust (Be sure to hover to learn about how each company uses Rust) There are now 3 Rust podcasts: New Rustacean, Rusty Spike, and Request for Explanation First year had one conference, the second year had three, and this year had four. crates.io is not even 3 years old, but already the number of crates has passed CRAN(R) and Hackage(Haskell).
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