I used Rust to optimize performance in a hot spot for our Python web-app. I am a Rust newbie, and this was my first encounter with the language, so my opinion m

I used Rust to optimize performance in a hot spot for our Python web-app. I am a Rust newbie, and this was my first encounter with the language, so my opinion may not have much value. But I found Rust to be unsuitable for web-development. The fact that Rust requires that you think about memory management made it feel less expressive and less productive. The strictness of the compiler also got in the way of "productivity". There's nothing wrong with that strictness, but in the domain of web-development where productivity and expressiveness is often more valued than raw performance Rust doesn't feel like the optimal tool. To use Rust for web-development feels like a premature optimization. I think for web-development, it's probably more productive to use Ruby/Python/etc... and call Rust externally to optimize hot spots.