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Is Rust marketable yet? Stackoverflow jobs (2020-10-30) that require:

    Rust - 15/2462
    C - 71/2462
    Go - 105/2462
    Kotlin - 109/2462
    Typescript - 147/2462
    C++ - 193/2462
    C# - 221/2462
    Java - 544/2462

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It'll probably take a few more years still. I've started introducing rust into my "stack" at work for some new projects and I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation, so when I decide to move to a different job there'll probably be one more Rust opening for somebody to take over.

The ecosystem needs to settle and stabilize a bit more before it reaches deep adoption in the industry as a whole. If you're a lean "disruptive" start up then you probably don't mind using more experimental technologies but big, established companies like to have a more long term vision. You don't want to have to rewrite half of your software 5 years from now because nobody uses FancyLang anymore.

The only rust jobs I’ve seen so far are “crypto/blockchain”, but I’m just casually follow the development, anyone knows other niches adopting Rust?

embedded / iot / automotive, this currently stands on c ecosystem due to suppliers and billions of lines of legacy code

the failure of rust was it tried to start from scratch where better solution would be to seamlessly integrate into c,

maybe if gcc has support for compiling rust the future switchover on embedded would be easier

I've done some researching for Rust jobs in several European countries. It's basically everywhere well below 1% of all dev job offers.

Chicken and egg. Python wasn't marketable before 2005-ish, either. I hope you didn't bother learning that silly niche language.

Python was a top-10 language easily in 2005-ish. Nowadays Rust is only as half as popular as Go, a language that isnt even in the top 10. Rust will go the way of Scala, Haskell or Erlang, interesting but niche.

The exact year isn't really the point... Maybe it was 2000. The point is that Python existed all through the 90s and was not very popular for a long time. Rust has only been passed 1.0 for five years and it's already gotten a ton of attention, even from big players.

> The exact year isn't really the point..

So what's the point? Python was created in 1991, in 2000 was more popular than Rust is today. Rust was created in 2010, so it is older and in a world where it has to compete with more languages. Reality is different of what you wish to be true.

Some dates for reference: Golang (2009), Rust (2010), Kotlin (2011), Typescript (2012)

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