> In the past 5 years there’s been 1 rust job in my region of Denmark. It listed rust as a “nice to have”. I think it fares better in the Copenhagen region, but not by much.

This is pretty much what killed me on it, and I think the leadership and community really don't understand that commodity development is important to language growth.

I like Rust and it opens up some interesting domains I don't get to play with much, but it's a considerable effort to learn it when I know there are zero real opportunities to use it professionally. I keep hearing hype about how this or that big giant company is using it, but none of them are hiring for it: it seems quite a few are just shifting internal C/C++ teams to Rust. The rare public openings are either a) demand extremely senior C/C++ level dev experience, or b) vague crypto/blockchain startups that reek of fly-by-night scams.

Far from the hope of "democratizing" systems programming, it seems like the industry has instead closed ranks around it and used it as a further gatekeeping tool to keep out entry or even journeyman level experience, and certainly anyone not already bathed in the old C languages.

I thought Rust was supposed to free us from C?

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Yes, that certainly was surprising.

> Real-time collaboration produces better software.

Why does every commercial editor seem to desperately believe we all want this?

Why would I, as an actual developer, want "pair programming but now there's lag"?

I didn't even like the pairing fad in the first place, I found it awkward, anxiety-inducing, and slow. Adding an additional software dependency just seems worse.

I don't buy TVs anymore, I buy monitors.

There's no reason to own a television with a shitty computer built-in, when I can just buy a screen and plug it into my actually good computer.

Right now I have a 27" ThinkVision display and a pair of studio monitors, with both laptop and Switch connected to it. Media comes over the computer (who even buys cable in 2021 anyway?), audio patches into the display over USB-C/HDMI and out to the speakers.

I'm moving soon and I'll probably spring for a 30+" 4K for the living room at some point, and look into a receiver and theatre speakers but honestly I don't see the point.

You do pay a bit more for the display-per-inch, but the reason those "4K smart TVs" are so cheap is all the adware money, so they're only "cheap" in the way that Facebook is "free".

I've started using it as my main browser both in daily use and dev.

In the past I had trouble with client projects or dev tools only working in chrome, but I decided that the only way things get freer is to make myself fix those pain points when I come across them.