Is there ever really a situation where you need to write a web service but cannot afford garbage collection?
Rust is a really cool and novel language. I considered learning it, but since I mostly program web apps and services, I decided to go with Haskell instead. it has much better performance than dynamic languages, but is still garbage collected, because managing memory manually in my code seems like a wasted effort.
I chose Haskell rather than Go just because I like functional idioms, but you could just as easily replace Haskell with Go in the above paragraph.
I mean, I guess the fact that you can write a web app in Rust is cool, I just don't understand why you'd really want to, when there are languages like Haskell and Go (and Nim and D...) that give you fast binaries and garbage collection.