[sk1459]

I just did a search on Dice for jobs.

Java: 12,879 Golang: 4,339 COBOL: 321 Haskell: 18 Rust: 2

The Rust jobs also appeared to be blockchain related, so I wouldn’t count on that being a place that could get you to retirement. I would expect Rust is a requirement so a marketer add a bullet point in his or her slide deck.

[mplanchard]

Yeah, there are fewer rust jobs in general because it’s a newer language, and blockchain is one of the areas it gained its earliest traction. Of the companies I applied to when I was looking for a rust job, though, only one out of five did anything related to blockchain.

I don’t know what Dice is, but Indeed, stack overflow, angel list, and google’s job aggregator all had quite a few rust jobs when I was looking. I also kept a spreadsheet of companies I had heard about who were using and hiring for rust over the course of the last couple of years at my previous job. In addition to FAANG and Microsoft, there were quite a few smaller shops like 1Password and Signal.

And the job I wound up taking has nothing to do with blockchain, fwiw