1. Executive Summary
13.7%Dead
▼ Improving (-11.0% since last check)
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Clinical Notes | "A tragically solid choice. You won't even get to complain about it." |
| Classification | language |
| Age | 16 years (est. 2010) |
2. Algorithmic Evaluation
The following mathematical model was applied to evaluate the existential footprint of Rust. The deaditude score is heavily influenced by the components listed below.
D =fage × ∑i=1nWbase,i · qi∑ Wbase,j · qjCi
Where Ci ∈ {GH, SO, RE, HN, YT, JB}
Figure 1: Existential Footprint
Radar analysis mapping the six distinct vectors of existential threat.
Figure 2: Historical Deaditude Evolution
Expected Extinction Date (Approximation): September 2394
Chronological evolution of existential threat.
2. Clinical Analysis
2.1 Diagnostic Metrics
The following objective indicators have been collected to determine the existential status of this technology:
Codebase Vitality (GitHub)
- Stars: 118,918
- Forks: 15,674
- Open Issues: 11,225
- Issues Closed Ratio: 0.0%
- Recent Commits (last month): 2,923
- Days Since Last Commit: 0
- Contributors Count: 499
- Trend Direction: stable
- Trend Growth Rate: 0.0%
Community Cry for Help (StackOverflow)
- Total Questions (recent): 21
- Answered Ratio: 33.3%
- Accepted Ratio: 14.3%
- Zero Answer Ratio: 52.4%
- Median Response Time (hr): N/A
- Days Since Last Activity: 1
- Trend Direction: stable
Hype & Propaganda (YouTube)
- Recent Videos: 17
- Average Views: 45,030.3
Despair & Existential Dread (Reddit)
- Reddit Posts (recent): 395
- Average Upvotes: 80.7
- Trend Direction: increasing
- Trend Growth Rate: 121.6%
Intellectual Discourse (Hacker News)
- Mentions (recent): 1,000
- Average Points: 22.6
- Days Since Last Post: 0
Corporate Adoption (StackShare & Jobs)
- Stacks Using It: 32,608
- StackShare Followers: 0
- StackShare Upvotes: 0
- StackShare Mentions: 0
- Open Job Postings: 23,536
- Jobs Trend Direction: stable
- Jobs Trend Growth Rate: 0.0%
Data retrieved at: 9/16/2026
Appendix A: Recent YouTube Propaganda
| Thumbnail | Video Details | Views |
|---|---|---|
 | Learn Rust: Build a Multithreaded Key-Value Store (Redis Clone) Channel: Will Velida | 17803 |
 | My favorite Rust development tools, setups, and AI workflows Channel: Let's Get Rusty | 18053 |
 | Rust's new borrow checker is coming! Channel: Let's Get Rusty | 80926 |
 | How to Learn Rust (For Hackers) Channel: CyberFlow | 39350 |
 | How to Build Chess ♟️ App in Rust | Full Code Tutorial Channel: RainDust | 307 |
Appendix B: Reddit Despair Logs
| Post Title | Score | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| reminder to cargo clean | 1484 | 126 |
| AMD is hiring Rust engineers to build GPU compilers, firmware, and runtimes | 975 | 51 |
| Sometimes when I'm stuck, I need to distract myself - so I made this for my altar to placate the borrow checker | 808 | 32 |
| Never (!) just got stabilized on nightly | 739 | 133 |
| Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft | 663 | 91 |
Appendix C: Hacker News Discourse
| Topic | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests | 832 | 728 |
| My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite | 817 | 707 |
| Rewriting Bun in Rust | 795 | 534 |
| Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft | 726 | 517 |
| Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now | 608 | 852 |
Appendix D: StackOverflow Pleas for Help
| Question Title | Views | Status |
|---|---|---|
| When should I use init and init_app function in steamworks crate? | 51 | Unanswered (0 ans) |
| rust glfw gl openGl draw a color line | 72 | Unanswered (0 ans) |
| gl::load_with error : Non-primitive conversion: converting `glfw::GLProc` to `*const std::os::raw::c_void` [E0605] | 43 | Unanswered (0 ans) |
| How to get arround "macros cannot expand to match arms" limitation in rust? | 61 | Unanswered (0 ans) |
| How to find the CPU consumption for each process in Linux using Rust | 164 | Answered (1 ans) |
Appendix E: Historical Deaditude Scores
| Date | Deaditude Score | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| 9/16/2026 | 13.7% | Accidentally Alive |
| 9/1/2026 | 24.7% | Accidentally Alive |
| 8/17/2026 | 10.0% | Accidentally Alive |
| 8/3/2026 | 17.0% | Accidentally Alive |
| 7/20/2026 | 11.0% | Accidentally Alive |
| 7/6/2026 | 17.1% | Accidentally Alive |
| 6/26/2026 | 23.0% | Accidentally Alive |
| 6/13/2026 | 20.9% | Accidentally Alive |
| 5/30/2026 | 36.6% | Stable & Mature |
| 5/16/2026 | 25.4% | Stable & Mature |
| 5/3/2026 | 18.9% | Accidentally Alive |
| 4/19/2026 | 34.9% | Stable & Mature |
| 4/5/2026 | 41.2% | Stable & Mature |
| 3/23/2026 | 31.4% | Stable & Mature |
| 3/9/2026 | 27.4% | Stable & Mature |
| 2/23/2026 | 26.8% | Stable & Mature |
| 2/10/2026 | 29.1% | Stable & Mature |
| 1/27/2026 | 36.0% | Stable & Mature |
| 1/13/2026 | 33.9% | Stable & Mature |
| 12/31/2025 | 32.0% | Stable & Mature |
| 12/17/2025 | 21.1% | Accidentally Alive |
| 12/3/2025 | 18.3% | Accidentally Alive |
| 11/20/2025 | 36.3% | Stable & Mature |
| 11/6/2025 | 26.9% | Stable & Mature |
| 10/24/2025 | 23.3% | Accidentally Alive |
| 10/11/2025 | 15.6% | Accidentally Alive |
| 9/27/2025 | 16.1% | Accidentally Alive |
| 9/13/2025 | 29.5% | Stable & Mature |
| 8/31/2025 | 24.1% | Accidentally Alive |
| 8/17/2025 | 24.3% | Accidentally Alive |
| 8/3/2025 | 11.5% | Accidentally Alive |
| 7/21/2025 | 15.3% | Accidentally Alive |
| 7/7/2025 | 25.5% | Stable & Mature |
| 6/23/2025 | 21.0% | Accidentally Alive |
| 6/10/2025 | 16.5% | Accidentally Alive |
| 5/14/2025 | 27.5% | Stable & Mature |
| 5/9/2025 | 21.7% | Accidentally Alive |
| 5/4/2025 | 19.9% | Accidentally Alive |