I'm personally a big advocate of Rust. That said, like yourself, I'm also a little skeptical that it's the right tool for most web apps. I think a case can be

I'm personally a big advocate of Rust. That said, like yourself, I'm also a little skeptical that it's the right tool for most web apps. I think a case can be made for small Rust web apps embedded in consumer electronics that may be very resource constrained, though. (Granted, these probably aren't the sorts of apps that would be using PostgreSQL as described in the article.) I've seen a lot of great web applications written in Go that can also be quite compact (compared to Java, for instance), and I think Go might be a great candidate for the next level up in resource availability. Like many languages, the syntax becomes a lot more clear after you've used the language a while. Maybe it's me who's been warped, but I've been programming in Rust for long enough that the example you pasted looks perfectly normal. ;)