Someone else downthread: "young developers can pick up Rust quite fast, and that makes it vastly easier than trying to find talented C/C++ developers."
I hope so. I have a hypothesis that the big-O for language success is "How easily can new programmers learn it?" Nothing else matter. JavaScript was slow, but everyone learned it, so it got fast. Python still had bad tooling, but everyone learned it, so it got better. And C got popular in the first place cause it was easier than assembly.
I wanna ask my managers if we could try hiring Rust devs. I don't like hiring people fresh out of college, but I can't manifest more money to hire experienced C++ devs. If the pool of good-enough-Rust devs is growing faster, and maybe already bigger than the good-enough-C++ pool, why am we interviewing people who don't even know what they don't know about C++?
I hope so. I have a hypothesis that the big-O for language success is "How easily can new programmers learn it?" Nothing else matter. JavaScript was slow, but everyone learned it, so it got fast. Python still had bad tooling, but everyone learned it, so it got better. And C got popular in the first place cause it was easier than assembly.
I wanna ask my managers if we could try hiring Rust devs. I don't like hiring people fresh out of college, but I can't manifest more money to hire experienced C++ devs. If the pool of good-enough-Rust devs is growing faster, and maybe already bigger than the good-enough-C++ pool, why am we interviewing people who don't even know what they don't know about C++?