Jobs working with the Rust programming language. No crypto

Because for whatever reason a very large fraction (in my subjective view majority but I don't have the data to back that up) of Rust job offers are cryptocurrency related. Some of us just don't care for it and don't want the noise so I like the idea behind this site.

Speaking from my own perspective of running general tech job boards [1], I would say that too narrow job boards have a really short lifespan.

This is because, you need a good supply of fresh offers to keep the audience. So if you end up to niche, you quickly become a job-ad-graveryard. Unless you scrap other big job sites automatically and somehow manage to filter and classify the jobs based on your niche.

[1] https://devitjobs.uk and https://devitjobs.us

I don’t think Exxon or Monsanto are hiring a lot of Rust developers

It’s impossible to make everyone happy when drawing a boundary. If enough people share the author’s frustrations, it won’t matter that the initial rules are “too specific and not specific enough” because they can evolve as the community evolves.

After all the same thing could have been said about the initial rules of Craigslist, Facebook, and many other projects that started narrow.

Watch out, Cloudflare is a crypto job since the company runs an IPFS gateway: https://developers.cloudflare.com/web3/ipfs-gateway/

I'm not against Cryptocurrencies but it's definitely an industry that could be wiped out by lawmakers the moment they realize how "this internet thing works" or the moment they decide to do their cryptocurrency and screw the ones made by private citizens - so I feel a bit shaky working for an employer related to Crypto.

For example, in my country (in the EUSSR), if you're a third country national and doing something related to cryptocurrencies you won't be able to open a bank account and fail the requirement to immigrate here (happened to a friend of mine). Similarly if you try to buy a house with money coming from crypto you won't be able to physically put the money into the bank for "compliance".

So you are already cut out with buying real estate from banks and corporations and you need to find a private buyer happy to accept to be paid outside of the country (if you send money to his bank in the country, he will be hit with the same compliance problems).

Cryptocurrency tries to solve a political problem with technical means and I'm surprised it hasn't been banned yet - but I'm sure it won't end well, in one way or another. Mind you, one way could be that it turns into ETH where government regulations cover validators (eg. they banned money coming from the cryptotumbler) - but then we're back at just your standard banking systems, with more hoops.

I think filtering out crypto makes sense even discounting any ethical issues. I wouldn't work for a defence contractor but many defence jobs are real, good jobs with benefits etc. That isn't true of the majority of crypto job postings I've come across. The crypto "ecosystem" is very much mostly scams and fly-by-night operations.

Simply because it's not the case that 90% of all Rust job ads are from oil and gas companies. If there was some questionable section of business that also had a huge chunk of the rust job postings then I'm sure it would be that way.

The reason it isn't is because it isn't needed. And yes this is due to frustration. But it's an actual solution to an actual problem, not a hypothetical.

As someone who has looked for rust jobs before, I liked this link because in the past most rust jobs I found on the market were for blockchain or blockchain applications.

If you’re fine with those, any generic job aggregation site works

Because it's probably less about central planning what jobs are ethical by your definitions and more about protecting people applying to jobs from shady crypto job postings. Not to say that it's a good decision though, however there is a large amount of bad looking crypto jobs advertised looking for Rust.

You're not wrong! I don't want to see Rust cryptocurrency jobs, so I built this site. If you don't agree with that, then there are loads of great sites for finding Rust jobs in crypto. I'm not purporting to be the site for Rust jobs. It's simply a curated list selected by me.

Cryptography means cryptocurrency because that's what virtually every cryptographer was trying to achieve: cryptographically-secured interactions between people.

And economic interactions are the most impactful ones. Note that (Open)SSL was created when people really wanted to make CC payments over the internet.

Also: a lot of cryptographic protocols require some censorship-resistant publication medium. Wanna rotate keys and retire old ones? You need some sort of distributed transparency log. Want a human-readable name that escapes Zooko's triangle? Also need a log. These things did not exist until people got used to blockchains. Even CT log for TLS arrived only after Bitcoin, even though it does not require no mining or currency.

I think that's because there are only six jobs or so.