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  • Microsoft Building Team of Rust Developers

    Microsoft Building Team of Rust Developers

    Microsoft is building a team of Rust developers, both for internal work and collaboration with the community.

    Rust is a relatively new programming language. Syntactically, it’s similar to C++, but is designed to offer better safety, especially in how it handles memory management and concurrency. The language was originally created by a developer at Mozilla, with the organization taking a leading role in its development. Much of Mozilla’s Rust team was laid off in 2020, amid the 250 employees let go.

    Since then, some of the biggest names in tech have been snapping up the Rust developers that were laid off. Microsoft is the latest, posting a job listing for a Rust Principle Software Engineer.

    The job listing makes it clear the engineer will work on internal systems, as well as collaborating with the Rust open source community. The engineer will be part of a newly formed team within the company.

    In this role you’ll work closely with product groups around Microsoft to gather requirements and develop tooling improvements for Rust. You’ll join a newly formed team with a vision to support Rust at Microsoft while also collaborating and sharing those improvements with the broader Rust OSS community.

    You’ll be working along with some of the most talented engineers in Microsoft on important internal systems programming workloads.

    Microsoft and other big companies’ support is good news, both for the Rust language, as well as for the developers laid off by Mozilla.

  • 83% of Engineers Want Remote Work Post-Pandemic

    83% of Engineers Want Remote Work Post-Pandemic

    The pandemic has resulted in a major shift in software engineers, with 8 in 10 wanting remote or hybrid work options post-pandemic.

    Terminal conducted a survey of 1,108 software engineers. The respondents were primarily from Canada, Mexico and Latin America, although also included ones from the US, Europe and Asia.

    According to the survey, 80% of engineers want remote work anywhere from 60 to 100% of the time post-pandemic. 83% of respondents said they wanted some kind of hybrid option, allowing them to work from both home and office.

    “The rise of the remote work movement, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic’s stay-at-home orders, has established a new era of engineer expectations,” said Clay Kellogg, CEO of Terminal. “Our findings show that overall, engineers love the flexibility and benefits that remote work offers and aren’t going back to the old ways. Business leaders risk widening the tech talent shortage at their companies if they don’t build a long-term remote work strategy that focuses on mental health, flexible schedules and team-building.”

    Terminal’s research is the latest indication that companies will need to make permanent changes if they want to retain top talent post-pandemic.