Really sorry to see the news about the RIF. My thoughts are with everyone affected.
If you (or someone you know) were impacted and want to stay in the distributed systems or data plane space, we’re doing a lot of work at Kong ($2B valuation API & AI governance company) on high-performance proxies, control planes, and Rust, Golang, etc. (I used to work on Cloudflare's edge proxy project)
Happy to chat about the roles or just the tech stack in general if you want to geek out. Feel free to reach out: datong#konghq.com
Depends on the kind of programs you write, you may not actually need the "features" Rust provides (e.g. no-GC and high performance). In that case writing in a GC managed language certainly removes a lot of mental burden compared to writing in Rust.
However, anyone came from a systems programming background and wrote any non-trivial async network applications in C/C++ will most certainly appreciate the abstraction and safety Rust provides. Productivity grows significantly when writing in Rust because a lot of the low level details are handled by library authors instead of the programmer.
Same with Google's Report IP problems form, if you tries to put an IPv6 address it will always return: "Invalid IP address" and wouldn't let you submit the form.
If you (or someone you know) were impacted and want to stay in the distributed systems or data plane space, we’re doing a lot of work at Kong ($2B valuation API & AI governance company) on high-performance proxies, control planes, and Rust, Golang, etc. (I used to work on Cloudflare's edge proxy project)
Happy to chat about the roles or just the tech stack in general if you want to geek out. Feel free to reach out: datong#konghq.com