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I'm sure there are web developers that are also Rust developers and vice versa, but the vast majority of developers I know that belong to either of those groups

I'm sure there are web developers that are also Rust developers and vice versa, but the vast majority of developers I know that belong to either of those groups don't belong to the other.

pjmlp 4y ago
Given it was born at Mozilla, is getting traction at WebAssembly and WebGPU efforts, WGSL is loosely based on its syntax, and some Cloud Native projects are migrating from Go to Rust, I am quite sure there is some overlapping. Not that I agree with Rust's adoption at that level, as I think languages with automatic memory management make more sense, but that's me.
- kibwen 4y ago
  What people are roundaboutly observing is that the vast majority of developers these days either begin their career or spend at least a part of their career as web developers. That Rust is such a successful onramp to systems development even for people who haven't been classically trained in it is one of the strengths of the language.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    While it is good that such people are embracing Rust for such purposes, they would have had a similar high level experience with something like Modula-2 or Object Pascal. If anything, it is the pseudo-macro Assembler approach to C's design that made it a scary experience for some developers.
- sanderjd 4y ago
  Browser developers are not web developers...
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Silly me thinking browsers are related to the Web.
    - sanderjd 4y ago
      "related to" is doing a lot of work there. Browsers are "related to" the web, but surely you don't think Mozilla, if hiring for someone to work on the CSS layout engine or something for Firefox in c++ or rust, would advertise for a "web developer". It's just not the same job in any way.
      - estebank 4y ago
        Reminds me of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DebEU7DXUAAJQp-?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DebEU7DXUAAJQp-?format=jpg&name=...

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I'm sure there are web developers that are also Rust developers and vice versa, but the vast majority of developers I know that belong to either of those groups

by proto_lambda 4y ago

I'm sure there are web developers that are also Rust developers and vice versa, but the vast majority of developers I know that belong to either of those groups don't belong to the other.

pjmlp 4y ago
Given it was born at Mozilla, is getting traction at WebAssembly and WebGPU efforts, WGSL is loosely based on its syntax, and some Cloud Native projects are migrating from Go to Rust, I am quite sure there is some overlapping. Not that I agree with Rust's adoption at that level, as I think languages with automatic memory management make more sense, but that's me.
- kibwen 4y ago
  What people are roundaboutly observing is that the vast majority of developers these days either begin their career or spend at least a part of their career as web developers. That Rust is such a successful onramp to systems development even for people who haven't been classically trained in it is one of the strengths of the language.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    While it is good that such people are embracing Rust for such purposes, they would have had a similar high level experience with something like Modula-2 or Object Pascal. If anything, it is the pseudo-macro Assembler approach to C's design that made it a scary experience for some developers.
- sanderjd 4y ago
  Browser developers are not web developers...
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    Silly me thinking browsers are related to the Web.
    - sanderjd 4y ago
      "related to" is doing a lot of work there. Browsers are "related to" the web, but surely you don't think Mozilla, if hiring for someone to work on the CSS layout engine or something for Firefox in c++ or rust, would advertise for a "web developer". It's just not the same job in any way.
      - estebank 4y ago
        Reminds me of https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DebEU7DXUAAJQp-?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DebEU7DXUAAJQp-?format=jpg&name=...