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* can I get a good job programming in this? Without moving to another country or continent.

Yes, there are many large companies which are either actively deploying Rust, or planning to. Easily found if you search.

* is my industry showing interest in it?

Yes: security, high reliability, availability and safety oriented industries. Any industry looking to get themselves out of the entrenchment of C/C++ but still needs at least one of the major reasons why it persists.

* is any industry showing interest?

I haven't found any industry, primarily focused on software development, which isn't interested. I've been actively poking around to see which way the wind is blowing. I honestly haven't come across any industry which would actively say "No we're good with C", other than those were software is an annoyance which they grudgingly have to be involved in.

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Downvoted because no references to back up anything you are saying. I also tried doing a quick search on stackoverflow jobs and only got back 5 results [1].

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/jobs?sort=i&searchTerm=rust

The "Friends of Rust" page here lists organizations who have voluntarily chosen to advertise their production usage of Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html

Furthermore, I attend Rust meetups all over the country and invariably meet people using Rust for various tasks at their job, even if their company doesn't choose to deliberately advertise itself as a Rust shop.

We also have a large internal list of contacts at companies using Rust (publicly or otherwise) that we use to schedule periodic conference calls to discuss the needs of production users in order to prioritize language development (e.g. Dropbox and Mozilla really, really want faster compile times, which is why that's been a determined focus for this cycle).

Overall we're quite encouraged by how many folks are willing to use Rust in a production capacity considering how young and unproven the language still is. :)

>Furthermore, I attend Rust meetups all over the country and invariably meet people using Rust for various tasks at their job, even if their company doesn't choose to deliberately advertise itself as a Rust shop.

Shocking that you would find people using rust at rust meetups. I'm sure they're a good representation of the programming sector as a whole.

No need to be so dismissive, my friend. The parent poster asked for references of people using Rust professionally, and I can confirm that I have spoken to many who do.

It's a bad reference, so I dismiss it. To be extreme, you may as well say the earth is flat because you met a bunch of people at a local gathering of the flatlander society who believe it to be true. Obviously people are going to be enthusiastic about rust if they're taking time from their weekends to go hang out with others to talk about it. It's just an irrelevant data point.

This is not wikipedia, and we don't need [Citation Needed] for everything we say. As you point out yourself, you can easily find at least 5 results. You can also easily find references for everything else I say.

The standard here is not to LMGTFY every few words.

Find me an interesting job in Stockholm requiring Rust and I am your man!

This is rubbish. You make huge claims without providing a single proof.

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