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Is Rust marketable yet? Stackoverflow jobs (2020-10-30) that require: Rust - 15/2462 C - 71/2462 Go - 105/2462 Kotlin - 109/2462 Typescript

Is Rust marketable yet? Stackoverflow jobs (2020-10-30) that require: Rust - 15/2462 C - 71/2462 Go - 105/2462 Kotlin - 109/2462 Typescript - 147/2462 C++ - 193/2462 C# - 221/2462 Java - 544/2462

walkingolof 6y ago
The only rust jobs I’ve seen so far are “crypto/blockchain”, but I’m just casually follow the development, anyone knows other niches adopting Rust?
- iExploder 6y ago
  embedded / iot / automotive, this currently stands on c ecosystem due to suppliers and billions of lines of legacy code the failure of rust was it tried to start from scratch where better solution would be to seamlessly integrate into c, maybe if gcc has support for compiling rust the future switchover on embedded would be easier
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_cobe_bero__ 6y ago
I've done some researching for Rust jobs in several European countries. It's basically everywhere well below 1% of all dev job offers.
simias 6y ago
It'll probably take a few more years still. I've started introducing rust into my "stack" at work for some new projects and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, so when I decide to move to a different job there'll probably be one more Rust opening for somebody to take over. The ecosystem needs to settle and stabilize a bit more before it reaches deep adoption in the industry as a whole. If you're a lean "disruptive" start up then you probably don't mind using more experimental technologies but big, established companies like to have a more long term vision. You don't want to have to rewrite half of your software 5 years from now because nobody uses FancyLang anymore.
ragnese 6y ago
Chicken and egg. Python wasn't marketable before 2005-ish, either. I hope you didn't bother learning that silly niche language.
- cambalache 6y ago
  Python was a top-10 language easily in 2005-ish. Nowadays Rust is only as half as popular as Go, a language that isnt even in the top 10. Rust will go the way of Scala, Haskell or Erlang, interesting but niche.
  - ragnese 6y ago
    The exact year isn't really the point... Maybe it was 2000. The point is that Python existed all through the 90s and was not very popular for a long time. Rust has only been passed 1.0 for five years and it's already gotten a ton of attention, even from big players.
    - cambalache 6y ago
      > The exact year isn't really the point.. So what's the point? Python was created in 1991, in 2000 was more popular than Rust is today. Rust was created in 2010, so it is older and in a world where it has to compete with more languages. Reality is different of what you wish to be true.
      - galfarragem 6y ago
        Some dates for reference: Golang (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), Typescript (2012)
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Is Rust marketable yet? Stackoverflow jobs (2020-10-30) that require: Rust - 15/2462 C - 71/2462 Go - 105/2462 Kotlin - 109/2462 Typescript - 147/2462 C++ - 193/2462 C# - 221/2462 Java - 544/2462

walkingolof 6y ago

The only rust jobs I’ve seen so far are “crypto/blockchain”, but I’m just casually follow the development, anyone knows other niches adopting Rust?

iExploder 6y ago
embedded / iot / automotive, this currently stands on c ecosystem due to suppliers and billions of lines of legacy code the failure of rust was it tried to start from scratch where better solution would be to seamlessly integrate into c, maybe if gcc has support for compiling rust the future switchover on embedded would be easier
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_cobe_bero__ 6y ago

I've done some researching for Rust jobs in several European countries. It's basically everywhere well below 1% of all dev job offers.

simias 6y ago

It'll probably take a few more years still. I've started introducing rust into my "stack" at work for some new projects and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, so when I decide to move to a different job there'll probably be one more Rust opening for somebody to take over. The ecosystem needs to settle and stabilize a bit more before it reaches deep adoption in the industry as a whole. If you're a lean "disruptive" start up then you probably don't mind using more experimental technologies but big, established companies like to have a more long term vision. You don't want to have to rewrite half of your software 5 years from now because nobody uses FancyLang anymore.

ragnese 6y ago

Chicken and egg. Python wasn't marketable before 2005-ish, either. I hope you didn't bother learning that silly niche language.

cambalache 6y ago
Python was a top-10 language easily in 2005-ish. Nowadays Rust is only as half as popular as Go, a language that isnt even in the top 10. Rust will go the way of Scala, Haskell or Erlang, interesting but niche.
- ragnese 6y ago
  The exact year isn't really the point... Maybe it was 2000. The point is that Python existed all through the 90s and was not very popular for a long time. Rust has only been passed 1.0 for five years and it's already gotten a ton of attention, even from big players.
  - cambalache 6y ago
    > The exact year isn't really the point.. So what's the point? Python was created in 1991, in 2000 was more popular than Rust is today. Rust was created in 2010, so it is older and in a world where it has to compete with more languages. Reality is different of what you wish to be true.
    - galfarragem 6y ago
      Some dates for reference: Golang (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), Typescript (2012)
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