I have the dumbest reason I'm sure. As a mostly Java guy for years and years and a C++ guy before that, I happened to be looking around to see if there was a language out there where immutability (final) was the default for variables. That was it, nothing more. Found Rust and liked the ideas, but didn't do anything very much with it - though I even went to one of the early (2016) Rust conferences - and have slowly done more and more with it on personal projects.

It's been interesting seeing how coding agents take to it - candidly they're much better at Rust than me :)

Handcoded projects are mostly a bunch of trivial conversion tools⁰ that I don't bother to share, but I have a little dictionary tool¹ and a UI for my webcam² that went up on my Github. From Agent-coded stuff I have a container manager³ and a VM (QEMU) manager⁴ that I found useful and figured why not share them. All for Linux as I'm a happy Linux user for both business and pleasure.

I haven't found much use for Rust professionally, but it's definitely my language of choice when hand-coding stuff for fun and I seem to get better results with it for agent coding on complex backend and UI stuff too.

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⁰ For example one of them took some text and an outline truetype font as input and then spat out the GCode to drive my 3D printer with a pen strapped to the print head to "hand" draw text. I screwed something up somewhere, though and always had to hand edit some stuff before it was usable - not interesting for anyone without my own very DIY setup.

¹ https://github.com/dcminter/rs-define

² https://github.com/dcminter/zoomies

³ https://github.com/dcminter/lave-station

⁴ https://github.com/dcminter/vm-manager