Really comes down to "Do you want GC spikes or not?" and the tail latencies that go with it (clearly visible in the images in the tweet thread). The alternative

Really comes down to "Do you want GC spikes or not?" and the tail latencies that go with it (clearly visible in the images in the tweet thread). The alternative, before Rust, was to use C or C++, and I'd never consider writing a Java or Go service in C++. Rust doesn't just bring safety to C, it brings an ecosystem that brings a "system language" up to the point where I'd consider it for general services. Edit: deleted java vs go comment, and replaced with the evidence at hand