It depends on what you're doing, but for web stuff Go is the popular middle-ground choice that's not quite as fast as Rust but is much faster than Python or Rub

It depends on what you're doing, but for web stuff Go is the popular middle-ground choice that's not quite as fast as Rust but is much faster than Python or Ruby. Go is garbage collected, unlike Rust, so you get the productivity benefits of not having to think too hard about memory management.