How is Rust trending on Hacker News job postings compared to C++ and Python?

After working with Rust for a couple of years now, I was wondering how Rust was trending on Hacker News in comparison to C++ and Python.

As a proxy measure for programming language trends, I thought it might be informative to analyze the frequency of programming language mentions in the monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” and “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?” postings on Hacker News for a few years. Let’s see the graphs.

This was just a small experiment tapping into HN data to see how a few programming languages are trending. This question was more out of personal curiosity than anything else, since I enjoyed C++ for many years as a systems programming language for robotics, self-driving vehicles, sensors, computer vision, and medical devices. Python, on the other hand, has been my go-to language for machine learning and deep learning applications for several years. Today, when starting a new project, however, I usually start out in Rust, but may fall back to either Python or C++ depending on its nature.

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