TypeScript/Frontend Developer, 5 YoE, interested in picking up Rust
I bootcamped my way to a low-level React position about five years ago.
Since then I feel that I've outgrown most of what this ecosystem has to offer. I've found that dipping into low-level languages (in my case Rust) is the providing a richer learning environment for me moving forward.
I did not get into this field until about six years since graduating with an unrelated technical degree.
While I enjoy it, I am having a hard time seeing myself finding any kind of future employment given the competition and my lack of knowledge.
For example: networking, database management, system design, infrastructure and orchestration, concurrency, multithreading, data structures and algorithms, memory management and hardware, are all weakpoints of mine since mostly focusing on frontend.
I believe I have some natural aptitude for CS, but it seems completely overrun with people who started at a much younger age, who find themselves having to live and breathe the tech in order to stay competitive.
Given this environment I feel serious imposter syndrome and that the gap between myself and other professionals, I almost feel like an amateur.
Although I am not particularly old I feel like it might be a bit too late to try and close the gap in my mid-30s (not to put anyone down in their 40s or 50s or beyond).
Is there any hope to market myself as a fullstack engineer, falling on Rust as my go to backend language. I use Go at work from time to time and find the major concepts are pretty similar.