[eminence32]

Your comment about people with "more organizational power" may be an accurate reflection of things, but I don't think it's necessary to explain this increase in people using rust at work. It could be that more and more people are using rust for small ad-hoc scripts, which might have been written in python or java before. These small things might not require any organizational approval, but people might be more comfortable now using rust (either because their own skills in the language have improved, or because they feel more comfortable justifying the use of rust, even if they don't need to).

[pornel]

I think that's a genuine use of Rust for Real Work™. For example, Cloudflare went from using Rust for one project 3 years ago, to depending on Rust in core components and using it by default for almost all new development.