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From a technical point, you are absolutely correct. From a developer heavy business, it's a little more complicated. If Rust had a good full-fledged web framew

From a technical point, you are absolutely correct. From a developer heavy business, it's a little more complicated. If Rust had a good full-fledged web framework, it would enable more developers to justify why the business should use Rust. The culprit is that it would require a heavy education budget, but it would in turn enable the business to allow using Rust for other parts of the business which could benefit from Rust, e.g. middleware, small components, CLIs and systems programming in general. Having a little bit of Python here, a little bit of Go there and a bit of Java elsewhere can become chaotic. There is a huge benefit for a small company to only have 1 programming language everyone agrees on using.

devjab 2y ago
If your goal is to use just one language then why wouldn’t you pick JavaScript (likely Typescript), C# with Blazor, Go with templates or basically anything on the JVM? Rust is a bad general purpose language in my opinion, and its performance isn’t actually good enough compared to C# to really justify the added headaches. I say this as someone who really, really, doesn’t like C# by the way. If your goal is easy web development, Django, Ruby on Rails and Laravel are frankly going be extremely hard to beat. I prefer Go with templates, but that’s still much worse than those options.