Reading the comments it seems like there may be a bunch of Rust jobs, they’re just not advertised as much and many of them are filled by senior people with expertise in other areas and languages. In particular it seems like a lot of jobs at Amazon in the AWS department use it heavily. It might simply be too new to really see heavy recruiting for new hires yet. In another decade as teams expand and senior people move to other positions or retire we might see a sudden surge in companies looking for Rust devs.
I know plenty of senior C++ devs who would love to use Rust professionally. Maybe most Rust jobs simply fill easily internally and don’t get reach the public?
Some do. But introducing new language to a team is non-trivial. And maintaining a project in more than one language has its own challenges. Rewrites of course are risky and expensive. So, Rust tends to get introduced very incrementally, for smaller projects, or for green field dev. Look at all the drama in the Linux kernel.
Reading the comments it seems like there may be a bunch of Rust jobs, they’re just not advertised as much and many of them are filled by senior people with expertise in other areas and languages. In particular it seems like a lot of jobs at Amazon in the AWS department use it heavily. It might simply be too new to really see heavy recruiting for new hires yet. In another decade as teams expand and senior people move to other positions or retire we might see a sudden surge in companies looking for Rust devs.
I know plenty of senior C++ devs who would love to use Rust professionally. Maybe most Rust jobs simply fill easily internally and don’t get reach the public?
If they’re seniors then why not slowly introduce Rust to their existing codebases?
Some do. But introducing new language to a team is non-trivial. And maintaining a project in more than one language has its own challenges. Rewrites of course are risky and expensive. So, Rust tends to get introduced very incrementally, for smaller projects, or for green field dev. Look at all the drama in the Linux kernel.
That’s my guess. All the openings are being filled internally and never even make it to public listings.