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You can tell this is more real than most lists you see posted by that Rust is down there in the weeds with Swift and Dart, and that JavaScript is not at the top

by ncmncm 4y ago

You can tell this is more real than most lists you see posted by that Rust is down there in the weeds with Swift and Dart, and that JavaScript is not at the top.

echelon 4y ago
Rust is picking up incredible steam and is being used in production. At present, there are a lot of "cool" jobs that use it, so in a way it's kind of a filter for "fun". Within a decade it will be a substantial player. FWIW, I'm hiring for Rust in production [1]. Send me an email if you're interested. [1] Rust monorepo with ~10 apps. We need to start using Bazel. Mostly server, but we're now building a cross-platform native desktop app for real time voice conversion and a WASM client for the browser. We've also given Rust-Unreal Engine bindings a try and have a bunch of cool photogrammetry/NeRF stuff.
- ncmncm 4y ago
  All of these languages are used in production. Even Haskell. At issue is the veracity of the numbers, not their absolute or relative quantity.
- EddySchauHai 4y ago
  I’ve had roles in Rust-focused companies, most of my interviews have at least mentioned Rust, and work at a company using C but with some internal support for Rust. This is all coming from someone who isn’t particularly interested in Rust lol. It’s seemingly becoming very dominant in systems programming.
  - ncmncm 4y ago
    In fact it is not. It stands some chance of becoming that in ten years, but odds are still strongly against it. It would need to pick up a thousand users for every existing user, completely swamping all existing users. But probably a substantial fraction of all programmers willing to use it as it is already do. There seems to be little appetite to change it in any way that would appeal to the larger number.
    - EddySchauHai 4y ago
      What I meant was that I, as a non-Rust-fanboy (it's okay but I don't care that much about the language I use), am constantly coming across Rust in almost every job and interview I do across the crypto/defense/security domains. I'm not out there looking for Rust but it's been there in the last 3 or 4 contracts I've had and all but one interview I had when last looking for a job. Admittedly these are all startups, but still. It's far more common, from my experience, than these surveys seem to suggest.
      - ncmncm 4y ago
        That mainly means that startups are deeply atypical.

by ncmncm 4y ago

You can tell this is more real than most lists you see posted by that Rust is down there in the weeds with Swift and Dart, and that JavaScript is not at the top.

echelon 4y ago

Rust is picking up incredible steam and is being used in production. At present, there are a lot of "cool" jobs that use it, so in a way it's kind of a filter for "fun". Within a decade it will be a substantial player. FWIW, I'm hiring for Rust in production [1]. Send me an email if you're interested. [1] Rust monorepo with ~10 apps. We need to start using Bazel. Mostly server, but we're now building a cross-platform native desktop app for real time voice conversion and a WASM client for the browser. We've also given Rust-Unreal Engine bindings a try and have a bunch of cool photogrammetry/NeRF stuff.

ncmncm 4y ago
All of these languages are used in production. Even Haskell. At issue is the veracity of the numbers, not their absolute or relative quantity.
EddySchauHai 4y ago
I’ve had roles in Rust-focused companies, most of my interviews have at least mentioned Rust, and work at a company using C but with some internal support for Rust. This is all coming from someone who isn’t particularly interested in Rust lol. It’s seemingly becoming very dominant in systems programming.
- ncmncm 4y ago
  In fact it is not. It stands some chance of becoming that in ten years, but odds are still strongly against it. It would need to pick up a thousand users for every existing user, completely swamping all existing users. But probably a substantial fraction of all programmers willing to use it as it is already do. There seems to be little appetite to change it in any way that would appeal to the larger number.
  - EddySchauHai 4y ago
    What I meant was that I, as a non-Rust-fanboy (it's okay but I don't care that much about the language I use), am constantly coming across Rust in almost every job and interview I do across the crypto/defense/security domains. I'm not out there looking for Rust but it's been there in the last 3 or 4 contracts I've had and all but one interview I had when last looking for a job. Admittedly these are all startups, but still. It's far more common, from my experience, than these surveys seem to suggest.
    - ncmncm 4y ago
      That mainly means that startups are deeply atypical.