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There are fewer rust jobs, but those that are there are reallly pretty desperate. Most have stopped agreeing to train people because of the time involved, and the risk someone won’t really take to it. Learn rust in your own to a basic fluency and you’ll be able to find a job

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Oh, I've taken the time to learn the language and tooling. It means I would take a junior position, and I don't mind that. I'm not chasing money anymore, I just want to enjoy what I do again, because I don't anymore.

So... Where are these jobs? I have basic fluency and I'll take anything.

I had 2 interviews for jobs that happened to use rust, but they were cut off early from hiring someone farther in the process.

I've talked to AI hardware companies using rust for firmware. A couple other companies needing firmware that decided to use rust. Another three companies doing firmware infrastructure in rust. One company doing wide area SDN services. Two database companies. Every single crypto/web3/defi company. Two groups doing datalog-esque work. Two cloud AI infrastructure companies.

1Password recently had job openings for Rust positions for interns. Wouldn't call them desperate.

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