[beezlewax]

As a javascript/typescript developer I took a notion to learn Rust and it has been hard but rewarding on a personal level. Im concerned though that I'm learning somwthing that has very few if any real jobs right now. All I see is block chain nonsense. In your opinion is there much chance that this will change?

[atoav]

To be honest I would say Rust is worth learning even if you were to never use the language at all after learning it.

The problems Rust attempts to tackle are fundamental problems you will encounter in many languages. Understanding how to program or how to think in order not to get those problems in the first place is the thing Rust can teach you. A lesson that any programmer can learn from.

That being said Rust has great testability and interopability. I myself use Rust in some (work) projects in conjunction with Python.

So I definitly see some future for the language, also commercially. But even if I wouldn't, I would still recommend learning it.

[beezlewax]

Interesting take. So far I agree with what you're saying. It has given me more insight into how memory management works than I'd had before. I think one of the things that bugs me about javascript is how difficult it is to track down memory leaks. A problem I've often faced when dealing with large codebases and other peoples code. The memory management in Rust via the borrow checker is a very elegant as a solution. It's also a pain but not as hard to deal with as people make out.