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Will Rust be the most admired *and* most desired language in the 2026 StackOverflow developer survey?
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This would be the 11th year running for "most admired".

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Making sure I understand. You wrote "this would be the 11th year running" but Python was the most desired language last year, wasn't it?

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@BenTensor Thanks for clarifying. It'd be the 11th year running for "most admired", while it's been most desired fewer times.

@josh Awesome, thanks.

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