Memory allocation and garbage collection is a very solved problem unless you are doing highly performant work.
We make websites and mobile apps. Get it?
Yes, there is definitely a trade–off between speed of development and speed of the resulting program. Rust isn’t right for everyone, especially when speed of development is the prime consideration. Even a mediocre server can handle many thousands of requests per second if the software is efficient, but there are plenty of worthwhile projects out there that don’t see that level of usage. For them, garbage –collected languages are perfect.
But what is it that I am fighting against here? Why is my tone a certain way? These people are literally trying to build websites in Rust. Acolytes, cultists.
What’s wrong with that? Rust is great for writing websites. People may choose to make different tradeoffs than you.