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It's just Hacker News attracts more rust users, so more rust jobs here. You can search on actual job sites. Rust jobs are still rare.
by feverzsj 2y ago
It's just Hacker News attracts more rust users, so more rust jobs here. You can search on actual job sites. Rust jobs are still rare.
- pjmlp 2y agoDefinitely, doing this on a game development board, or data engineering would give completely different numbers.
- weinzierl 2y agoLinkedIn doesn't even recognize Rust as a language you can select. You can select Perl, Fortran and Cobol, but Rust? Crickets. I asked them half a year ago if they would add it. I included a few sources, e.g. the StackOvflow survey and a couple of sources that showed LinkedIn's parent Microsoft's investment in Rust, but I only got stock answers. So, Rust has some way to go.
- koakuma-chan 2y agoI doubt you can "ask" a company like LinkedIn. Your best chance is probably their Twitter account manager responding to your tweet.
- throw-the-towel 2y agoWhat exactly do you mean? I do have Rust as a "skill" on my LinkedIn, for what it's worth.
- weinzierl 2y ago"Skills" is a free-form field, I can add "foobar cook" as a skill if I like. I mean the "What kind of work you are open to" section that is relevant for being matched to open positions. I just rechecked a moment ago and still no way express that I am open for Rust positions.
- Sharlin 2y agoI wonder if that's telling more about LinkedIn than Rust.
- weinzierl 2y ago... and in extension about Microsoft. When it comes to Rust they definitely talk the talk but do that walk the walk too?
- pjmlp 2y agoThey do to the extent of having rewriten Pluton firmware into Rust with TockOS, Azure Boost NICs running Rust on their firmware, being the second official language on the Azure Sphere OS SDK, rewriting GDI region handling code in Rust, now shipping on Windows 11 vlatest,...
- tayo42 2y agoThis is what I've noticed in the real world working. I haven't seen much enthusiasm for it. I actuslly introduced it for a new experimental project and got a bunch of push back on it.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoHow many other people know Rust? Introducing a new language is a huge burden that needs some potential payoff.
- vunderba 2y agoThis. Even if it's just an experimental project, at some point down the line if there's a possibility that it's going to have to integrate with the rest of the system - you've just introduced significant expectations for the existing and new developers on the team. While I don't think that rust has a huge learning curve, it's different enough that you can't just easily transition from a different high-level language. I would never introduce a new language to an existing code base without an exceptionally good reason.
- tayo42 2y agoThat's a catch 22 though. If you never introduce it no one will learn it? The people that mattered were on board with the experiment though. It was a healthy enough environment that the project failing if it did wasn't going to be terrible for my career
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoThere are an infinite number of things I could learn. There still needs to be a business rationale as to why a new technology stack should be introduced which outweigh the costs. Speed, memory safety, rate of errors, ability to hire talent, ease of deployment, whatever. Using it because one team member thinks the language is cool does not meet the bar.
- IshKebab 2y agoBut growing rapidly. Most Rust jobs are still "invisible" in that they were C++ jobs that have turned into Rust jobs without hiring anyone. I've had one contact from a recruiter saying they were looking for C++/Rust devs. Obviously you won't find many on Indeed or whatever, since companies that advertise there are not really on the cutting edge or anywhere close.