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My role originally was mostly C# but I had some Rust experience in college so I was placed near a team that was driving Rust adoption at my company. Eventually we merged with that team which gave me a good excuse to rewrite some tooling or do greenfield development in Rust 😄

Working out great! The ecosystem around Rust has continually gotten more useful for us since we made the transition from C++. It’s been a huge positive.

You nailed it! I added some Rust in a Node.js application by compiling it to wasm 😛

They’re not likely to open new full time positions for it, but we got a lot more people there interested in and enthusiastic about Rust, especially fur interop with C and Python.

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Joined AWS just when they started sanctioning new projects in Rust, and our team started a new project.

Nailed it!

Yeah. I definitely had a job at a place writing Python/Javascript and there was a project that was a perfect fit for Rust and was one of the first people to write rust there.

docs.rs/smallbigint :3 haven’t looked back at it since. It’s a Lisp-head (me) wanting the transparent bigints from dynamic languages, and playing with macros to get it I think the talk is even still on YouTube, but I’m afraid to watch it again 😁

Started my own company 😎

Yep. Got frustrated with C++, wanted derive macros in a new somewhat standalone part of the project so I wrote that in Rust. I do think I at least asked my PhD advisor if it was fine and he didn't say no. Later I made a hobby project which was obviously in Rust into my main project

More or less. In my case I took over a team where someone had unofficially added Rust to the stack. We then took that and went with it. That was over 6 years ago and we still have a mix, but everything that can be written in Rust is, and we’re gradually replacing the rest.

i added Rust to my company's tech stack before it was officially sanctioned, thus creating my own Rust job

We had a CLI tool everyone uses written in Ruby (2.7, unmaintained) and I just rewrote it because I was sick of the startup time. That's our Rust story!

Go (a sanctioned language) was in place before Rust and my team gave it a try. Didn’t get much traction and the error handling a common source of mistakes. Jump to 2025 and there are no sanctioned languages. Just need to make a good case for inclusion.

I was applying for another role and mentioned during the interview that I learned Rust in my free time. Basically got the job on the spot, because they were looking for Rust people.

Sadly not working as a rust dev officially. I’ve a number of open source projects. laio.sh is one of them. Even after 3 years I consider myself a noob. My company still has its head firmly stuck in the sand when it comes to rust. Writing kubernetes operators on the JVM is apparently a great idea 🤦‍♂️

The company had an open-source CLI tool built with Rust and it was one of the projects I was tasked to add some more features to. From there I've used Rust in multiple projects.

I didn't add Rust to the tech stack of the Java shop I was at when I first learned Rust (although I ported a few things I liked to Java), instead I got a different job that had Rust from the get go.