hyper User Survey 2025 Results

hyper is the widely-used HTTP library for Rust. We ran the first user survey for hyper in November 2025. Here’s the results and some analysis.1 Why did we do a survey? We ran a survey to make sure we focus on the right things. It’s part of being user-driven, working backwards. The amount of work required to get some data has an outsized return on your investment. When you know nothing, just a little bit of work means you now know something. And knowing what users need is a requirement to making an actually useful tool. I keep high-touch, high-context relationships with some users that greatly informs me on what is needed. And reported issues also provide a way to see what is wrong. But a survey provides a new lens for identifying what is needed. Sure, surveys have their own biases to deal with, such as self-selection. And voting in a survey costs very little, so each individual answer has less weight. But it helps quantify things we supposedly know from just a few users. Does this…