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It's difficult to find someone actively hiring for Rust jobs these days. I'd love to use it day-to-day but it's still pretty limited in industry.
by mmastrac 4y ago
It's difficult to find someone actively hiring for Rust jobs these days. I'd love to use it day-to-day but it's still pretty limited in industry.
- 0des 4y agoMost of the easy to find rust jobs will come from the token space these days.
- mmastrac 4y agoThat's exactly what I'm seeing, but I don't really have any interest working in tokens or blockchain.
- Grimburger 4y agoIs that not at odds with your original comment though. "rust jobs" vs "rust jobs I personally want to do" doesn't really back up the statement that there are no rust jobs available.
- mmastrac 4y agoThere's a handful of token jobs but even if I were interested in that, the pickings are slim. It's definitely not "no jobs" but there's a wide spectrum.
- Grimburger 4y agoFrom my experience a lot of rust development is done in places where rust isn't really what they hire for. It's existing devs who start writing some greenfields projects
- riskable 4y agoThere's also demand for Rust in the world of "embedded devices that must not fail" i.e. medical stuff.
- upupandup 4y agoElixir, Clojure, Rust. These were all great languages that were championed but nobody is learning them because there are no translatable jobs that you would find with ease in other languages like Javascript or Python. The compensation isn't there to match it. Neither is it like a COBOL type of situation where someone's mainframe is running on super niche language. You are better off learning C++ or Assembly
- ch4s3 4y agoI get a lot of inbound elixir interest, and my company is hiring for at least 4 elixir positions now.
- fulafel 4y agoClojure was among the highest paying jobs (or maybe even #1?) in the recent StackOverflow dev survey.
- Rochus 4y agoWell, it's difficult to verify; as a survey participant you can enter whatever figure you want; and even if it were true, the sample size is very small to conclude anything reliable. Measuring the number of jobs advertised is more objective; and with a thousand or more jobs, the noise component should also be sufficiently low.
- fulafel 4y agoIt's been in the same position in previous years. In any case that's the best data I know relating to the claim about the compensation I responded to, if anyone else has better evidence to either direction, it would be interesting to hear.
- nequo 4y agoI think the real problem is not this. But that comparing these average salaries is meaningless even if the responses are truthful, the sample of respondents is representative, and the sample is large. Clojure developers have a different distribution of unobserved skills and motivations than JavaScript developers or Go developers. So the difference in average salaries could be due to the robustness of the language, due to the pockets of the industry that use them, due to unobserved skills and related reasons, or even due to differences in how much Clojure vs. other developers value amenities like the novelty of the task that they are working on. It would be interesting to see more than just a comparison of averages. But collecting good data to capture the finer details is hard.
- tedmiston 4y agoI miss the Stack Overflow Jobs board for how well it let you filter positions by technology like this. But there are a few dedicated Rust job boards: https://rustjobs.dev/ https://rustjobs.dev/ https://rust.careers/ https://rust.careers/