I think this probably covers it: > you’ll need to build some test harness boot strap for your DB From what I've seen, it's totally possible to use Rust for web

I think this probably covers it: > you’ll need to build some test harness boot strap for your DB From what I've seen, it's totally possible to use Rust for web development. However, there are tons of web frameworks in various languages that provide way more out of the box than you can find in Rust. These frameworks have had tons of time to mature - Ruby on Rails is 16 years old, Django is 15 years old, Laravel is 9 years old, and so on. I think (and hope) Rust will get there eventually, but I think it'll take some time. There's a lot of hype, but speaking as a web developer who's interested in Rust I think there will need to be a lot more tooling and a lot of educational content before it gains any significant market share. I got my start with C/C++ before I ever touched web stuff, but I never got too far into advanced language features. That combined with not having written a serious C program in years makes Rust something I'd really have to commit to learning, so even though I'd love to have a faster better-typed alternative to PHP I won't be writing any actual webapps in Rust in the near term. Basically, I think most of the people writing webapps in Rust will be Rust people interested in the web rather than web people interested in Rust for a while. There are of course organizations that do more complex stuff on the web and will jump on this sooner, especially places that use microservices and don't have to move their whole platform over, but many people building simpler sites with smaller teams will wait until there's a substantially larger ecosystem.