<story><title>Why Rust?</title><url>https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve started working in Rust too and I too find it a tremendous breath of fresh air. It&amp;#x27;s the first time I&amp;#x27;ve been excited about a new programming language in many years.&lt;p&gt;C++ promised to be a language that was both high performance and very expressive but I always found it very difficult to work at a high level of abstraction in C++. The sharp details always stab through.&lt;p&gt;Rust code, on the other hand, often doesn&amp;#x27;t look much more elaborate than code I write in much higher level languages but it&amp;#x27;s far, far faster and I feel more confident in its correctness.&lt;p&gt;Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tasn</author><text>&amp;gt; Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.&lt;p&gt;We are hiring for Rust engineers. Not crypto. :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.svix.com&amp;#x2F;careers&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.svix.com&amp;#x2F;careers&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Rust?</title><url>https://www.rerun.io/blog/why-rust</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cageface</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve started working in Rust too and I too find it a tremendous breath of fresh air. It&amp;#x27;s the first time I&amp;#x27;ve been excited about a new programming language in many years.&lt;p&gt;C++ promised to be a language that was both high performance and very expressive but I always found it very difficult to work at a high level of abstraction in C++. The sharp details always stab through.&lt;p&gt;Rust code, on the other hand, often doesn&amp;#x27;t look much more elaborate than code I write in much higher level languages but it&amp;#x27;s far, far faster and I feel more confident in its correctness.&lt;p&gt;Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>black_puppydog</author><text>&amp;gt; Too bad most of the Rust jobs right now seem to be in crypto.&lt;p&gt;It is not really surprising that the crypto bros jumped onto the bandwagon, the tech got hyped just around the same time. Just, one of them correctly. :)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s just a shame that other companies don&amp;#x27;t seem to follow suit. Except some, who always ask for &amp;quot;Senior Rust Developer&amp;quot; which I&amp;#x27;d guess is still a limited supply market. :D</text></comment>