> but as an alternative against Python it gets muddier For me, a clear advantage of rust (and also Go) over Python (or Ruby, or PHP) is not having to deal with

> but as an alternative against Python it gets muddier For me, a clear advantage of rust (and also Go) over Python (or Ruby, or PHP) is not having to deal with runtimes. With Python, the server needs all sorts of setup. Exactly the right version and configuration of the runtime. Pip. Or Pipenv. Or Pyenv. Or Conda. Or... and so on. Then it needs the libraries installed. Some of which must be built natively; so just packaging them in some CI is often not even possible. These native builds need lib-something-dev packages. Then with an update of the underlying server, suddenly nothing works anymore. Having a single binary that I can plop onto almost every linux box and which "just runs" regardless of the exact version of Ubuntu, cargo, rust-toolchain on the server/hosting machine is invaluable. I'm so done with maintaining the fragile card-house that my Ruby-on-rails apps require, or that my python/flask services need, that my nodejs insists upon: with rust this is no longer needed. And yes, docker/containerization is a solution to it. And yes, I know about the options to package up a python app with runtime included. But all that adds extra complexity. It merely makes it easier sometimes. Not simpler. And it inevitably makes troubleshooting, upgrading, etc even harder in some future.