It's definitely true that being good for writing services wasn't really a big design goal of rust and it's far from the lowest friction language to do it in. Ho

It's definitely true that being good for writing services wasn't really a big design goal of rust and it's far from the lowest friction language to do it in. However it is still a mainstream high performance language with a rich type system and amazing compile time error checking and that makes it attractive to use for many other things if you are already used to it.