Ask HN: Is Rust essentially a hobby language?

I remember when Rust was released, it was May 15, 2015; 9 years ago. I was there for the launch party in one of Mozilla’s offices. Ever since (I am mainly a Java/Scala dev) I’ve tried to use it at work on my own initiative for writing some ad-hoc tool there and there, because management wouldn’t hear of it for using Rust for something more essential. Landing a purely Rust job also proved too difficult. Even today when I open up job ads I can see 50 Scala jobs for every 1 Rust job. That’s crazy, considering ever since it’s release Rust was consistently voted “most loved” language on Stackoverflow annual survey and it’s been climbing steadily on Tiobe’s Language Index, about to enter top 10. Compare it to Scala, which is supposedly in decline and never even hit Tiobe’s top 20. So I went digging around a bit and I found that apparently only something like 16% of people who use Rust use it for work. That essentially makes Rust a hobby language, does it not?

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