I keep coming back to learning/practicing Rust (I really like it) but every time the job market seems to have very few jobs where I am. Wonder if I need to look for fully remote Rust jobs? What is the experience of people doing Rust as $MAIN_JOB?
Most people doing rust don't see themselves as rust coders. They are experts in whatever field they work in, and use rust. I do network stuff - we don't hire rust devs, we hire network devs and if they don't know rust, we teach them.
Other groups here approach it the same way - hire for domain knowledge, not tool knowledge. This is pretty widespread IME.
I think for "rising" languages it's often this way. I remember back in the 00s people complaining that there were no python jobs, or ruby jobs, even as those languages were exploding in popularity - same with node in the 2010s. I didn't see the same phenomenon with go or C#, i think the difference was those two languages were released by big companies - in go's case it was "google released this, lets use it... it must be good", during a time google was still widely respected. In C#, it was "this is a first class citizen of .Net, and works nicely in our existing ecosystem with MS support". As rust usage continues to grow, I suspect you'll see more and more listings with rust as a keyword, that takes time though.
