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I don’t want to shit on anyone’s hard work because this does look cool and useful if the language was Python, Java, Go, C#, …

Using a systems language where it’s not required is just burning time and money.

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As I said above, it may actually be the opposite. Depends on many factors, but the larger you scale, the less true what you’ve said is.

There was a time when Go was considered a “systems language” only, and very little web development was done with it. Same with Node.js V8, which initially had very little going for it. Every language starts without much of an ecosystem. If folks find Rust to be beneficial, we’ll see that change for Rust too.

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