Number of openings is very much not the same as the number of jobs that exist; the article conflates the two, but it's entirely possible that many devs just don't want to work for crypto companies, so crypto job openings stay unfilled (and therefore visible) for longer than other types of Rust positions.

Unfortunately.

Similar to Haskell. While with Rust it can be justified by its novelty and status as a meme, Haskell has been here since 1990.

Maybe it's because it's hard to attract talent in that space without offering niche, cool tools that are hard to find elsewhere?

First off, this is bullshit.

# job advertisements for 'rust' in the title != Company's searching for Rust Developers

# job advertisements for rust != # of developers using rust for non crypto shit.

I'd just like to point out those facts for people devolving the conversation in to all crypto is rust and rust is crypto and they will burn together.

Also, how about the fact that fast, concurrent and safe is exactly what the blockchain needs? Everyone who's coded in solidity (Javascript) or vyper (Python) for the ETH ecosystem knows that the constraints of the blockchain show those languages flaws(Difference?).

A lot of new code is being written for crypto projects.

There's plenty that aren't (disclaimer: I work at Amazon, in a different area)

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=rust&loc_query=

My impression is that the crypto companies face scepticism when their recruiters reach out. So why not try to counteract that with the huge enthusiasm for rust

I was looking for a rust job recently and got the same impression that most of them are in crypto :|

My gf is an embedded systems engineer using Rust. Is there data on embedded Rust jobs?

Lots of Rust animosity in here. What's wrong with it? In places where C/C++ has been the standard, Rust is many times more fun, quick, and easy. It lets you implement higher level control flows (iterators, recursion, multithreading, maps) much more easily and reliably than the aforementioned languages while still allowing for byte level access when required. Its library system is a billion times more ergonomic than C or C++, though I wish it allowed for easier dynamic linking to system libs (just because that's historically the way libraries have been part of distributions). These are all good qualities. It does have weighty syntax and compile times are slow, but so does C++. I can't speak about whether it's really better than a language like Python or Haskell, but I don't think Rust targets the same problem space.

It would be funny if the crypto bubble burst and took the rust bubble with it.

Good. Finally one positive impact crypto has on the world.

After it all crashes, hopefully these rust coders will find their way into traditional finance and tech and displace C++.

Maybe because most of the new "tech" startups/jobs -- that care more about language than other startup areas -- are in "crypto"/Web3?

P.S. Also, as a cryptographer: writing "high level" cryptography code in anything besides Rust is an unnecessary pain honestly. It just makes the work saner and manageable. Think of it like writing C with another set of eyes looking over you for mistakes.

This doesn't seem to adjust for the programming language, it might be the case across the development ecosystem.

   yes.