In this FAQ we try to answer common questions about the Annual Rust Language Community Survey. If in your opinion there is a missing question or if you have a concern about this document, please open an issue or contact the Rust Community Team directly.
Rust is an Open Source project. As such, we want to hear both from people inside and outside of our ecosystem about the language, how it is perceived, and how we can make the language more accessible and our community more welcoming. This survey gives our community another opportunity to participate in shaping the future of the project.
- To understand the community's main development priorities and needs
- To categorize the population of users of the language
- To understand perceived strengths and weaknesses of Rust and related tooling
On average, it should take from 10 to 25 minutes.
It includes some questions about:
- basic demographic information
- how respondents use Rust
- their opinions on their usage of Rust and related tooling
- their potential usage of Rust at work
- their experience with Rust in educational settings
The answers from the survey will be anonymized, aggregated, and summarized. A high level writeup will be posted to blog.rust-lang.org.
Nearly every question in the survey is optional. You are welcome to share as much or as little information as you are comfortable with. Only the community survey team will have access to the raw data, and only anonymized aggregate data is shared with others.
This year’s survey was commissioned by the Rust Foundation and your responses are subject to the Foundation’s privacy policy.
We expect to publish results from the survey within a month or two of the survey completion. The survey results will be posted to the project's blog.