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The title of the article is actually, "How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language" .. which is so annoying.

"Most-loved" cannot be measured, it's so subjective. Why couldn't they have just said, "fastest growing" or something else? Does everything from media have to be designed to grab eyes, even out of the MIT Technology Review for godssake?



"Most-loved" has definitely been measured. It's a direct finding from StackOverflow's developer survey.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/06/05/why-the-developers-who...




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