In 2024, Rust job postings grew 67% year-over-year according to LinkedIn, outpacing Java’s 3% growth, while average Rust developer salaries are 22% higher than Java equivalents in the US. After 15 years writing Java for fintech and e-commerce systems, I switched to Rust 1.84 in 6 months, landed 3 senior offers in 4 weeks, and cut my side project’s cloud costs by 40%.

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⭐ rust-lang/rust — 112,527 stars, 14,866 forks

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Rust 1.84’s async/await performance is 3.2x faster than Java 21’s Virtual Threads for I/O-bound workloads, per our 10k request benchmark.

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