I am also in the boat of wanting to switch to systems programming. Writing code in Terraform or YAML is soul-sucking to me, but sadly all I get currently. I hav

I am also in the boat of wanting to switch to systems programming. Writing code in Terraform or YAML is soul-sucking to me, but sadly all I get currently. I have previous, full time software engineering experience, so I have “seen the light”, making Terraform/YAML feel that much more like a punishment. I’m building up Rust skills (1 year in now) to make the jump once that’s more popular. It’s a slightly risky bet (Rust jobs are currently 95% crypto).