The most important aspect of development in most companies is the developer him/herself. It’s typically also the most expensive resource tied to development. At

The most important aspect of development in most companies is the developer him/herself. It’s typically also the most expensive resource tied to development. At least if you look at it from a management perspective. This means that it’s extremely risky to build things in hipster languages because the pool from which you can hire is extremely small. It also means you’ll have to spend a lot of money building tools and libraries that are “just” available in more popular languages. On top of that, most companies don’t need to scale things to the point that Netflix does, and even if you do, PHP was good enough to run Facebook before PHP got fast, Python was good enough to run Reddit, Node is good enough to run Netflix and Ruby was good enough to run Github. I mean, why would you ever chose Rust for your project from a business/management perspective? To save a few bucks on iron while increasing your development costs by hundreds of thousands and making vacant positions impossible to be filled? On the flip side, why would you bother joining a hipster language as a developer? Right now 35% of the jobs in my country are for C#, another 35% is for JAVA, 25% of them are for PHP or Python, the remaining 5% is for every other language but typically c/c++ for robotics. JavaScript/typescript is involved in quite a lot of the positions, but almost no one is doing a JS backend. There isn’t a single OCalm or Rust position available in my entire country. I’m not sure there has ever been a Rust related position. Management doesn’t care about technical reasons, and it never will. Developers tend to go where the jobs are, even if they have hobby projects somewhere else. Maybe Rust will somehow manage to break through, Python did after all. But I think Python had a huge amount of help from being the replacement for JAVA at many universities. I don’t see that happening for Rust.