So I'm not sure I fully understand why you would target Rust as a web development language in the first place except pure curiosity of working in the language,

So I'm not sure I fully understand why you would target Rust as a web development language in the first place except pure curiosity of working in the language, but it appears there's more to the story. You're excited about Rust's possibilities -- in web development or just in general? And you gripe it's "demanding for web devs who work with a garbage collector." This makes me pause and think, why are we talking about web devs in the first place? From what I understood, Rust is a systems language and by systems language, it means stuff a lot lower level than `route '/me' => controller.toMe!` Thing is about web dev is that (1) it's a get-things-done playing field and (2) primarily just data delivery. The idea that you would want a language that doesn't have garbage collection is just silly. Why? What complex operations are you doing in each request/response cycle that demands this sort of computational horsepower? And if you are doing said complex operations, maybe you should rethink how you're delivering that data and creating it? GitHub is huge and runs on Ruby. Surely, you can't be wanting to use Rust to improve your performance are you? > Mutating state across threads is hard Yep, so maybe you should target a language / framework that abstracts this away from you? I wouldn't say anything usually but you say it's "surprisingly difficult to figure out." Come on really.. programming languages are not created just for web devs... I don't know. If you're trying to be productive AND change your toolset, it sounds like you just want a typed language. I wouldn't put bet too much of your time-and-focus-chips on Rust becoming a language for web developers. Do you see many people using C++ to write their servers? Nope. And don't take my message the wrong way. It really just bewilders me because I see a comment like "Yea I want to help people like you!" and I'm like Huh??