The primary reason why I love Rust is that the compiler catches most of my bugs at compile time. For example, I recently spent three full days on writing code w

The primary reason why I love Rust is that the compiler catches most of my bugs at compile time. For example, I recently spent three full days on writing code without running it at all — I just made sure it compiled as I went along. Afterwards when it was time to run it, there were a few mistakes not caught by the compiler, but I was able to fix all of them in 30 minutes. That program has been running in production without any issues since then. We use PHP for most other projects at work. I can assure you that this kind of thing is not possible with PHP. So in short, Rust forces me to think about every edge case and error path, so I can feel confident that my code really works, even in the face of obscure situations. In fact, this is also the first line in the AWS article in question: > One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. The only language I've had a similar experience from is Typescript. That it's fast or uses only a little memory is just a bonus for me.