This. Implementing an http endpoint is pretty straightforward. Newcomers may struggle with copy vs reference semantics (and that just takes time), but otherwise

This. Implementing an http endpoint is pretty straightforward. Newcomers may struggle with copy vs reference semantics (and that just takes time), but otherwise it's not too different from other statically typed http work. You define your input/output structs, you grab a database connection, you perform a query, and return it. No lifetimes. No Arcs or Mutexes or Rc or RefCell. We generally consider our rust backend as two parts: application code and library code. We intend for our application code to be approachable by full stack developers and not require deep rust expertise to use. Our library code can be a bit more complicated, and there we see a bigger ramp up and frankly some self selection among our team and that's fine.