# Why Everyone's Rewriting Everything in Rust: YouTube Video Stats

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/videos/iu_ALBDtoHo/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

## Key stats

- Channel: [ForrestKnight](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@fknight/)
- Published: 2026-08-10
- Format: Long-form, 25:37
- Total views: 264,528
- Views per hour: 162
- Likes: 6,003
- Comments: 774
- Engagement rate: 2.6%
- [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu_ALBDtoHo)

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