Performance rocks. For services that do significant amount of computation/data processing, Rust is typically order of magnitude faster and uses less memory. If

Performance rocks. For services that do significant amount of computation/data processing, Rust is typically order of magnitude faster and uses less memory. If your service is bottlenecked by a database or an external web API, Rust won't magically solve your problems. Rust has a pretty strict type system, and there's a lot of focus on correctness and reliability. Rust's enums with data are great for handling application state. This helps security, since the language stops you from doing entire classes of silly mistakes. I've written some sites in Actix and it didn't feel too different from using express.js (with a caveat that I am experienced in Rust, so the language itself isn't an issue for to me).