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Rust has been named Stack Overflow's Most Loved (now called Most Admired) language ever since our 1.0 release in 2015. That means people who use Rust want to keep using Rust[^gleam]--and not just for performance-heavy stuff or embedded development, but for shell scripts, web apps, and all kinds of things you wouldn't expect. One of our participants captured it well when they said, "At this point, I don't want to write code in any other language but Rust."
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Rust has been named Stack Overflow's Most Loved (now called Most Admired) language every year since our 1.0 release in 2015. That means people who use Rust want to keep using Rust[^gleam]--and not just for performance-heavy stuff or embedded development, but for shell scripts, web apps, and all kinds of things you wouldn't expect. One of our participants captured it well when they said, "At this point, I don't want to write code in any other language but Rust."
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[^gleam]: In 2025, 72% of Rust users said they wanted to keep using it. In the past, Rust had a *way* higher score than any other language, but this year, [Gleam came awfully close](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology/#admired-and-desired), with 70%! Good for them! Gleam looks awesome--and hey, good choice on the `fn` keyword. ;)
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When we sat down to crunch the vision doc data, one of the things we really wanted to explain was: *What is it that inspires that strong loyalty to Rust?*[^messitup] Based on the interviews, the answer is at once simple and complicated. The short version is that **Rust empowers them to write reliable and efficient software**. If that sounds familiar, it should: [it's the slogan that we have right there on our web page](https://www.rust-lang.org). The more interesting question is **how** that empowerment comes about, and what that it implies for how we evolve Rust.
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When we sat down to crunch the vision doc data, one of the things we really wanted to explain was: *What is it that inspires that strong loyalty to Rust?*[^messitup] Based on the interviews, the answer is at once simple and complicated. The short version is that **Rust empowers them to write reliable and efficient software**. If that sounds familiar, it should: [it's the slogan that we have right there on our web page](https://www.rust-lang.org). The more interesting question is **how** that empowerment comes about, and what it implies for how we evolve Rust.
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[^messitup]: And, uh, how can we be sure not to mess it up?
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## What do people appreciate about Rust?
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The first thing we noticed is that, throughout every conversation, no matter whether soneone is writing their first Rust program or has been writing it for years, no matter whether they're building massive data clusters or embedded devices or just messing around, there are a consistent set of things that they say they like about Rust.
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The first thing we noticed is that, throughout every conversation, no matter whether someone is writing their first Rust program or has been using it for years, no matter whether they're building massive data clusters or embedded devices or just messing around, there are a consistent set of things that they say they like about Rust.
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The first is **reliability**. People love that "if it compiles, it works" feeling:
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Another, of course, is **efficiency**, especially in data-center contexts:
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> "I want to keep the machine resources there for the \[main\] computation. Not stealing resources for a watchdog." -- Software engineer working on data science platforms
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> "You also get a speed benefit from using Rust. For example, \[..\] just the fact that we changed from this Python component to a Rust component gave us a 100fold speed increase." -- Rust developer at a medical device startup
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Efficiency comes up particularly often when talking to customers running **"at-scale" workloads**, where even small performance wins can translate into big cost savings:

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