Oh sure, but getting developers to jump from PHP to Rust is a lot harder. Conversely, it's easier to get PHP developers to jump to Node.js despite all it's issu

Oh sure, but getting developers to jump from PHP to Rust is a lot harder. Conversely, it's easier to get PHP developers to jump to Node.js despite all it's issues as well. I mean, Go is still miles above scripting land. 75% of all the cloud computing projects are in Go and if you deal with micro services you'll find a lot of the tooling and systems are written in Go. If you're using PHP, then Go or Java is much easier upgrade path than Rust.