What's puzzling is why a language designed for memory safety and low-level control and performance is even being considered for web development where they had the former all along and they generally don't care about the latter. Or if they do they use Java, Go or throw a couple dozen more servers at the problem.
With all the "Rust is as productive as X" and "If your data structure/logic won't work in rust, it was bad design" bullshit the silent majority of us are accustomed to see on HN..
With Java you only need to throw more RAM at the server. The performance is perfectly acceptable compared to something like Python or Ruby. You can always squeeze out more performance with Rust but the primary benefit is the lack of a GC.
