> Rust is not used enough yet that anyone will be forced to use it.

Google hired Ferrous Systems to train employees, as well as writing their own training curriculum. That sounds to me like people who would not otherwise use Rust being asked to use it at their job, and their job investing in their skills because they wouldn't or hadn't done it on their own. Is that different than "forced to use it"?

> It does not seem likely anyone of those 1000 is currently doing maintenance so much as completely new projects/features.

Google has been using Rust in android since 2019. That's four years. That is of course not "legacy" in any large sense, but at what point for you is something legacy? Does none of that work over four years count as "maintenance"?

> So if you were pulled from maintenance in C++ to work on something new in Rust I'm pretty sure you'll say Rust is great just because you feel more productive.

The start of this sub-thread, and a lot of the discussion inside of it, implies that people are using Rust simply because they want to, and not because it provides actual advantages. Is your position here that the sole advantage of Rust over C++ is that since projects are newer, they're better to work on? And if so, is that advantage illegitimate?

The "most loved" statistic (which they have since renamed) counts people who have used Rust before, and want to continue using it. Unless you're suggesting that they're all lying, I don't see how that connects to "regardless of whether they've even used the langauge."

Furthermore, at least in 2023, only ~25% of respondants are under 25. I'm not sure what counts as "younger" to you, but 37% are over 35, so it would seem that the survey skews older, not younger, to me anyway.

EDIT: since you're now flagged into oblivion (I tried to vouch for you but it didn't work), that statistic is what they changed "most loved" from. It counts people who have used Rust before, and want to continue using it.

The blog post says only 13% of these people have had experience with Rust before joining Google. How do you think Google ended up with so many people who are hardcore evangelists, imposing their views on others? A significant focus of the post is about on-the-job training; do you think that these evangelists were created by these trainings, or did they come to these opinions on their own, and are now pushing for it inside of Google?

Did Google only interview these Rust-loving developers, and none of the people they're supposedly pushing Rust upon?