Hacker News with Generative AI: Popularity

Oh, WoW (theverge.com)
World of Warcraft, or WoW, is like the Red Hot Chili Peppers of the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre: not only is it still going strong but it’s also somehow even bigger than you thought.
Rust Resumes Rise in Popularity (infoworld.com)
Rust, the fast and memory-safe programming language born out of Mozilla, has resumed its rise up the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, although it still has not cracked the index’s top 10.
Rust went from a side project to the most-loved language (2023) (technologyreview.com)
The music industry is engineering artist popularity (theguardian.com)
Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio] (syntax.fm)
NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads (npmjs.com)