# Community Support / Acceptance

* **Learning resurces**: Documentation, [Rust Book](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/), [Rustlings](https://rustlings.cool/), [Rust ebooks](https://rust-ebooks.code-maven.com/).
* [Crates](https://crates.io/) - large ecosystem of 3rd party libraries. [See the growth](https://lib.rs/stats)
* More than 130 [user groups](https://rust.code-maven.com/user-groups) and several conferences.
* Growing popularity ([PYPL](https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html), [Languish](https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish/), [TIOBE](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/)).
* Most admired / loved language for several years [2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/).
* Linus Torvalds admitted Rust into the [Linux kernel](https://docs.kernel.org/rust/index.html). See also the [Rust for Linux](https://rust-for-linux.com/) project.
* [Oxidising Ubuntu](https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995) - [coreutils](https://github.com/uutils/coreutils), etc.




