Stefanos

I really love the role I have the last 5 years, in turns of how interesting it is. But I am getting tired of various business decisions that for some reasons always end up, changing the entire stack.

As a result my computer language portfolio has become quite diverse. Which is not what I wanted to begin with. I know that sometimes diversity might be a plus, and some companies love polyglots.

But I would truly love to focus in one language.

So, I would really like to get at some point, a real opportunity to work with Rust. At the moment, I write a few tools here and there, and some sparse services. At the same time I semi seriously looking for a Rust role.

But the roles seem so sparse, that getting the right opportunity feels like winning the lottery.

The place I am employed, lately, made a sudden turn to typescript and serverless. I full understand the why from the business perspective. But there are some other perspectives that it still doesn't make much sense (yet).

1. Most software engineers currently employed are C# experts. Some of the best I have met in my carrier so far, with really few exceptions. Some are happy with the changes, as they see it as an opportunity to learn new things. Others have invested in certain technologies.
2. This stack could end up underperforming or not being as reliable enough as this industry demands (not going to disclose that though, you can make assumptions based on my profile)
3. There is a persistent negative criticism to different ideas. I feel like my team is especially, "mocked by silly jokes", because we are from, a more of a type of systems engineering background (we use things like vim, C++, etc). Personally I will admit I have an obsession with Rust, to the point that all my personal projects the last few years are written in Rust. Regardless, though, how much I love the language, the community and the whole ecosystem, I never tried to convince anyone to use it, in this line of work. Yet the mocking and the friendly jokes keep on coming.

oh well.

I decided today on a whim to pre-order Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice. I has become a habit lately to purchase Rust books, mainly written by and through the community that supports rust.

This is my fourth book. I am sure it will be interesting and educational regardless my experience with concurrency, atomics and locks.