> But I find javascript (/ typescript) noticeably more productive for small to medium projects. This seems like a pretty apples-to-oranges comparison. Rust is

> But I find javascript (/ typescript) noticeably more productive for small to medium projects. This seems like a pretty apples-to-oranges comparison. Rust is intended to do things you couldn't/wouldn't use JavaScript for. If you're talking about a small-to-medium project where you don't care much about mishandling memory, of course JavaScript is going to be more productive. Rust is forcing you to tell the compiler a lot of things that JavaScript assumes you don't care about (and is, most of the time, correct).