Cloudflare serves ~20% of the Web traffic, and several critical components on the request path are written in Rust (proxies, caches, firewalls, compression, som

Cloudflare serves ~20% of the Web traffic, and several critical components on the request path are written in Rust (proxies, caches, firewalls, compression, some encryption, etc.) At Cloudflare Rust is de-facto the default language for new network infrastructure projects. It is stable and mature. Teams using Rust are productive, and deliver fast software. Rust is here to stay, and there's no going back. Cloudflare is hiring for positions that require Rust, but doesn't require "Rust programmers" specifically — other knowledge/experience is more important. Rust's safe/unsafe boundary and a lot of hand-holding by the compiler allows hiring people who are new to Rust. This is working fine, and ability to work on large real-world Rust projects is attracting a lot of applicants.