Typst, a very nice Latex alternative, written in rust has published job listings.

  • rglullisA
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    1 day ago

    57k€ for someone with Rust experience?!

    Maybe that “Rewriting things in Rust is just to get rid of old people that can command high salaries” LinkedIn Lunatic was right after all…

    • Aras@feddit.org
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      20 hours ago

      In addition to the high likelihood that they are asking for an advanced junior dev “Picking between an Arc<T>, a Box<T>, and an &T is second nature to you.” (Not that advanced of a skill), even if they have a closed source webapp, they are still predominantly open source (that position is for that part), they don’t have much money. For that it’s not great, but not horrible either.

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      22 hours ago

      While they don’t write it explicitly I think they’re looking for a good junior developer, given that:

      • they are not asking for Rust work experience, instead for good Rust knowledge and experience with open source development, both of which you can obtain on your own if you’re a competent student

        • but also, is there even anyone that has experience in Rust and compiler/interpreter/typesetting development and is looking for a job? If they did require that almost nobody would qualify and the cycle of “I don’t have experience for applying to this job to get experience” would continue
      • 57k€ is not a bad salary for a junior developer in Europe

      • the two founders have graduated recently (~3 years ago) and have been working on Typst since then (their master thesis was on creating Typst itself), so it’s likely they are looking for someone like them.

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        12 hours ago

        Once upon a time, a “meaningful wage” was something that would allow you to raise a family of 4 while living a comfortable middle class standard of living.

        57k€ gross salary in Berlin amounts to ~3360€ per month net income. Rent alone will eat 30-40% of that.

        You can survive on that salary, which is more than most people are managing to do nowadays. But to think that someone with such specialized competency should expect a “not bad” salary shows a pretty sad state of affairs.

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      1 day ago

      Lol what a weird ass conspiracy theory take to waste my time reading