Rust is over the "100% hobbyist" phase, but it isn't still in the phase where you hire "Rust developers" verbatim. There's an important phase in between: Rust is being introduced in organizations as we speak, and some people that were originally hired for some other skills, develop in Rust they picked up because they were enthusiastic about it.

I am in that position at the moment. We are a multi-language shop, and there's some components that make sense to write in Rust.

I just saw my first local, non-blockchain Rust opportunity, but sadly had to pass on it due to other obligations. Everyone I know writing Rust these days is introducing it to their orgs - not waiting for an open position.

Not everything has to be about employability. You can still write code to scratch a personal itch, or for the pleasure of the craft.

But actually a lot of the big tech companies are using rust, they’re simply not advertising jobs.

You don't look for Rust jobs. You rewrite your current job in Rust. :D

it's like 8 pages just for SV on indeed

Weird, I did a search and I found 13,000 jobs mentioning Rust on Linkedin.