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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by jimbob45 on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @01:11PM (#33722574)
The disparity between Rust jobs and C/C++/C#/Java/Golang jobs on Indeed is staggering. Even worse, most of the Rust jobs are blockchain-related and may not survive the coming blockchain downturn.

It may be the case that some people use Rust but without Rust jobs, there will be no pool of experienced developers to later draw on.

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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by stackbutterflow on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:03PM (#33723240)
Hasn't the downturn already happened?
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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by mlyle on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @05:28PM (#33725330)
> The disparity between Rust jobs and C/C++/C#/Java/Golang jobs on Indeed is staggering.

Most of the world are things other than real systems programming. C++/C#/Java/Golang are likely better choices for this than either C or Rust.

But a C-like language is necessary. Rust may be (very slowly) displacing C for systems programming.

As you mention, it takes awhile for the pool of experienced developers to show up.

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Re:Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How by umanwizard on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @09:45PM (#33727310)
AFAICT most Rust jobs don’t require previous experience in the language.

Anecdote: My company is a nearly 100% Rust shop and we have never made it a job requirement.

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