The point of a language isn't to provide lots of jobs, but to be a tool that solves business problems, and Rust excels in a niche where there are no other serio

The point of a language isn't to provide lots of jobs, but to be a tool that solves business problems, and Rust excels in a niche where there are no other serious players, writing safe and performant code. It has plenty of traction in that niche, look at AWS Firecracker or Cloudflare's Pingora that was unveiled just this week. There may not be a ton of jobs compared to making web sites. But that's a totally different world from where Rust is strong. Deep in the stack, Rust is a pretty big player already and will be even more important in the future. People working down there would profit from learning Rust, not just to be attractive for new jobs, but because they will most likely find uses for it in their current job.