This rings true to me because it has echoed a lot what I am going through right now. Instead of perl, my tool of choice was Drupal. I built many great things i

This rings true to me because it has echoed a lot what I am going through right now. Instead of perl, my tool of choice was Drupal. I built many great things in it, but I just reached a point where I could no longer be passionate about it. I am different though in that I changed my focus to node.js 5 years ago, because it was something I was excited about and interested in. I think that's made me a more well rounded programmer, and made me a happier person in the long run. To the OP, I think you should follow your instincts about Rust. Do it because it interests you not because it's profitable. If you have to take a basically uninteresting day job to do so, you should know that you are in no way different to most of the people out there.