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If you're good, freelance/contract.

The companies don't need to vet you as thoroughly as a permanent hire.

Once they know you're good, and you know they know, the power balance changes because they don't want to loose you.

After the end of the first contract cycle, line up competing options and be prepared to walk away, but you may not need to, because from there on you dictate what it will cost to keep you.

> For anything larger than (very) small programs, Rust requires an upfront design stage, due to ownership, that it's not required when developing in GC'ed languages.

Every language requires this (if you want robust code), most just let you skip it upfront ... but you pay dearly for doing so later.

vim

not that it's really outdated ... just old