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Rust vs Go: Which Systems Language Is More in Demand on Hacker News?

Rust vs Go (Golang) hiring demand on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts. The systems-language race charted by share of postings since 2011, with the real job listings.

Compare Go (Golang) vs Rust in the Who Is Hiring? tool
Go (Golang)Rust
2,986
2,779
tip: use | to OR several terms into one bar, e.g. backend|sre|devops

Job postings

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How the lead changes hands

Rust versus Go is the systems-language question of the moment, and the hiring data shows two trajectories. Go builds an early, durable base on cloud-native infrastructure and holds a steady plateau; Rust starts later and climbs steadily as crypto, infra and systems teams adopt it. The relative bands show Rust narrowing the gap without overtaking Go's installed demand. Read the sample postings to see which teams hire for each - backend and platform for Go, systems and infrastructure for Rust.

The real postings behind each

Go (Golang)2,986 postings · peak Nov 2021
  1. Stream | Golang Staff Engineer | On-site: Amsterdam Boulder Skopje (sometimes remote) Stream ( https: getstream.io ) provides APIs for building in-app chat, feeds and realtime video. We do this for over a billion end users, and thousands of apps such as Nextdoor, Strava, Gojek,…

  2. …note that we ONLY consider candidates located within the EU. Stack: Golang | Typescript | Clickhouse | Postgres | Redis | Terraform | Packer | Linux | OpenTelemetry Infrastructure Engineer: https: friendlycaptcha.homerun.co infrastructure-engineer

  3. …multiple open positions for each of these roles, working in Python, Golang, Typescript and React among other leading edge technologies. Abnormal Security recently secured our series D round of financing at $250 million and are growing like a rocket in every way. If you're looking…

Rust2,779 postings · peak Dec 2021
  1. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | Principal Software Engineer, Rust Genomics Infrastructure | Memphis, TN | ONSITE or REMOTE | https: www.stjude.org St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is hiring Rust software engineers to rebuild the genomics ecosystem in Rust. We work at…

  2. …2 minutes. Effectively all of our codebase is written in Python, Rust, SQL, Javascript TypeScript, and Nix. The core technologies you'll need familiarity with to be productive are Python, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Git. We operate at a larger scale than typical startups. We operate…

  3. I pressed Ctrl-F and search for some programming language names. So amazed by how popular Python, Typescript, and Rust these days. The day of enterprise Java & C# domination have now gone.

The systems-language race for hires: Go's early lead, Rust's steady climb.

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