Go vs Rust
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
Go: Hacker News mentions: 22 mentions (2009) to 154 mentions (2026)
Rust: Hacker News mentions: 3 mentions (2007) to 2,321 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Installs, monthly
Go: Homebrew analytics installs: 118,652 installs (2026)
Rust: Homebrew analytics installs: 39,063 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Installs, yearly
Go: Homebrew analytics installs: 1,588,304 installs (2026)
Rust: Homebrew analytics installs: 459,473 installs (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Rank, monthly
Go: RedMonk language rankings rank: 17 position (2015) to 12 position (2026)
Rust: RedMonk language rankings rank: 20 position (2020) to 20 position (2026)
Imported from RedMonk language rankings
Questions asked, monthly
Go: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 65 questions (2009) to 4 questions (2026)
Rust: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2010) to 6 questions (2026)
Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer
Usage share, yearly
Go: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 2.1 % of respondents (2015) to 16.48 % of respondents (2025)
Rust: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 0.47 % of respondents (2015) to 14.92 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Pageviews, monthly
Go: Wikipedia pageviews: 62,530 views (2015) to 46,843 views (2026)
Rust: Wikipedia pageviews: 22,456 views (2015) to 49,857 views (2026)
Imported from Wikipedia pageviews
Who uses both?
No member lists both Go and Rust yet.
No member has recorded moving from one to the other yet.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.
Only with Go
Which moves use Go?
- Shrinking Docker images with multi-stage builds by Elif Yilmaz