I love Rust and I’ve watching the market for years too. Whenever I look, it seems to me that most Rust jobs are still in the crypto area, with a few more systems programming popping up recently if that’s your area.
Even though I’m already very productive in Rust for typical microservice backend scenarios, none of those jobs are close to my areas of expertise.
So I wonder if Rust jobs go unfulfilled not because of lack of rust developers but because the job market doesn’t match the reasons why some developers learn Rust in the first instance.
> none of those jobs are close to my areas of expertise.
Only in the same way that a cook that has spent his career in an Italian restaurant doesn't have expertise in cooking Chinese food. An employer on the hunt isn't going to care about such trivial differences (HR box tickers might, but crypto startups probably don't have that).
Granted, I can understand why you'd be leery about working at such places.
Electric SQL had a different design. Instant is more inspired by systems like LiveGraph, which power apps as big as Figma. LiveGraph was itself inspired by Luna, which powers Asana.
Even though I’m already very productive in Rust for typical microservice backend scenarios, none of those jobs are close to my areas of expertise.
So I wonder if Rust jobs go unfulfilled not because of lack of rust developers but because the job market doesn’t match the reasons why some developers learn Rust in the first instance.