An experienced Rust programmer will write generally better solutions in roughly the same amount of time as what is taken to write a solution in NodeJS, where th

An experienced Rust programmer will write generally better solutions in roughly the same amount of time as what is taken to write a solution in NodeJS, where the work is familiar. There is absolutely more code to write for a language where you can have fine control over practically everything, as long as it's within the constraints governing the compiler. However, web development consists of well-treaded paths using familiar patterns of data access and manipulation. If a new project does not benefit by code re-use, the experienced Rust programmer is going to have to use more tools and techniques to accomplish something similar in functionality to that created in other languages, but with far more guarantees and control. Who cares about guarantees and control? The team that is going to have to share the burden of maintaining the code you write. With the patterns and libraries used in just this example, you can write a very high performance, memory efficient web server that can handle a large volume of concurrent requests that involve database interactions: https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/master/async_pg https://github.com/actix/examples/tree/master/async_pg All of the work has been consolidated down to a single file for illustration purposes, and it would usually be spread across files. Does it seem like a ridiculous amount of additional work, compared to other languages? I am misleading you some as there is actually a lot more to write the moment we move beyond plain vanilla workflows but this example proves what is possible.