Rust debugging survey 2026 results
One of the biggest challenges Rust developers report in our annual surveys is a subpar debugging experience. So, back in February, we ran our first Rust Debugging Survey, in the hopes of identifying how Rust developers are using debuggers and what problems they are facing when doing so. We received over 2,300 responses, and we'd like to thank everyone who took the time to participate in the survey!
In this report, we'll go over some of the results of the survey. If you'd like, you can also check out the complete results of the survey.
If you'd like to skip ahead to any particular section, you can do so with this index:
Who Uses Debuggers?
The first step to making sense of the survey results is understanding who took the survey. We asked respondents to rate their Rust expertise, from "Never used it" to "Advanced". Over 80% reported themselves as "Advanced" or "Intermediate", split roughly evenly between the two: