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The OP does have a fair point. Rust jobs are harder to find and generally require niche knowledge in some area more then rust knowledge.
Reading the comments it seems like there may be a bunch of Rust jobs, they’re just not advertised as much and many of them are filled by senior people with expertise in other areas and languages. In particular it seems like a lot of jobs at Amazon in the AWS department use it heavily. It might simply be too new to really see heavy recruiting for new hires yet. In another decade as teams expand and senior people move to other positions or retire we might see a sudden surge in companies looking for Rust devs.
I know plenty of senior C++ devs who would love to use Rust professionally. Maybe most Rust jobs simply fill easily internally and don’t get reach the public?
That’s my guess. All the openings are being filled internally and never even make it to public listings.
Which validates the authors point - it can be hard to find or get a job writing rust. Much more so than other languages. Even if there technically are jobs around, just knowing rust wont help that much in obtaining one.
Perhaps but it’s also a subtle but important distinction between “there are no Rust jobs” and “there are no open Rust jobs”. The former implies it’s a dead end skill set while the latter implies potential openings in the future. It may just be one of those things where you need to keep your ears open for openings and jump on one when you see it. Personally I think Rust is just getting started and there will be a ton of job opening’s, just maybe not for a little while longer.
On my work we migrated from C++ to Rust.
No, we rewritten the app 😅 But we considered rewriting it even before the switch to Rust - it was quite legacy.
I wonder what criteria he has for considering Rust to be a success. Everyone stops writing C++ overnight? Obviously stupid.
Rust is a massive success. This guy is just impatient. Rust is better than C++ in the same way ARM is better than x86. Intel is still alive but would you invest?
