1 Year of Rust: From 0 to Full Time Open Source SWE

Today is my cake day representing 1 Year of Rust in the open source community 😀

For the last year, I have been pouring several hours per week on Rust trying to grow a deeper understanding of the language.

My way of working on Rust was to write blog post comparing Rust and Python. This gave me little milestone and a way to get feedback and help me improve.

The first article wasn't great, but the criticsm instantly showed me what I didn't know about Rust.

And by pushing articles out, one article reached in popularity and became the no 1 result on Google for "Rust and Pandas", then got translated in Chinese by a contributor, then got reused by someone else for a podcast episode, which got published on youtube.

This generated visibility for me, which led to a company recruiting me for a full time Open Source Software Engineering position which is big for me as I love the feeling of mastering Rust and the rewarding feeling of making solutions used by others.

I am putting this out as starting Rust might be very confusing. But if you're like me, like to spend a lot of time mastering something, not scared of adversity, not scared of embarassing yourself, making it your own way, Rust is definetely a good fit!