Part of the “Rustober” series.
What surpised me the most in the 2024 State of Rust Survey results was how many people were actually developing on Linux, and it clearly leading the chart for several years running. Truly, the year of Linux on the desktop.
The presence of WSL implies that people could be developing in a Linux container, but the percentage is still too high. This is surprising to me, because over my career I’ve never worked in companies where Linux was viable to use by developers, simply because there were either Windows or macOS requirements most of time. It would be interesting to work at a shop that encouraged or allowed Linux.
I’ll use this opportunity to drop a Linux hardware tier list I found on Reddit. I usually have an underpowered Linux nettop or laptop that I use for writing notes, but recent AMD chips look promising enough that I might be tempted.
