What was the Rust project in your portfolio that got you hired as a Rust developer?

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  1. pdf

    Rust library to read, manipulate and write PDF files. (by pdf-rs)

    Not sure about the importance of it, but I did talk about this one https://github.com/pdf-rs/pdf Held a presentation about code generation as well since that's what I found most exciting about the project.

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  3. edb

    A General Real-Time Debug library & Client for Solidity, Vyper, LLL & co.

    This helped me get an interview during my last semester at uni: https://github.com/ethdbg/edb

  4. ctru-rs

    Rust wrapper for libctru

    My contributions to rust3ds got me interviewed with microsoft, though I ultimately wasn't selected for the position. Then a few months later that same project got me in the door with a different company that did end up hiring me.

  5. Ruma

    A set of Rust crates for interacting with the Matrix chat network.

    I got a 404 there, but this link works for me!

  6. automodera

    A Publish-Subscribe Network for Distributing Perceptual Hashes of Images, written in Java and Rust.

    My BSc thesis project (automodera (Java) and rust-phash (Rust) ) got me hired as a junior c++ developer. sigh

  7. rust-phash

    Rust Perceptual Hashing Library and Executable

    My BSc thesis project (automodera (Java) and rust-phash (Rust) ) got me hired as a junior c++ developer. sigh

  8. komorebi

    A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉

    Maybe one day komorebi [tiling window manager for Windows] will get me a job at Microsoft. 😅

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  10. blazex

    AOT compiled object oriented programming language

    I didn't get hired but https://github.com/BlazifyOrg/blazex

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