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Comment by bawolff

6 months ago

I think the difference is that rust is hyped - so all you need to do to get attention is to start on it, since "rust" is kind of a selling point all by itself.

Nobody cares about c or cobol, so you have to do something useful to get attention.

In the end i suspect it is just survivorship bias.

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