Web development projects in a new language is a good starting point because you can do something with pretty UI quickly and with minimum configuration. But it h

Web development projects in a new language is a good starting point because you can do something with pretty UI quickly and with minimum configuration. But it has no staying power. A web developer will be gone after a couple of months (fun to learn!), leaving behind nothing, and suddenly Rust will have lost its footing (systemdevelopment).