Was hoping this would go into more detail; about 50% of it was just repeating well-known points about the language itself. In particular there was no discussion

Was hoping this would go into more detail; about 50% of it was just repeating well-known points about the language itself. In particular there was no discussion of auth, which you need even if you're just doing JSON APIs. I've fiddled around with Rust web proof-of-concepts and I tend to agree that the language is somewhat-but-not-completely suited to it, and that the ecosystem is coming-along-but-not-quite-there-yet. But I have a small sample set for those impressions; I was looking forward to reading a more in-depth anecdote about the ups and downs and how to overcome different limitations, as well as a some informed speculation about the future.