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> Rust is not a problem solver; it is going to fight you all the way through because of its emphasis on programmatic correctness. With Rust, you have to have the solution first, consider the language-specific caveats, and write something in such a way that you don't go back and have to improve it.

You just described my reasons for switching from Rust to Go better than I ever have.

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Rust is great for writing stuff that needs to be stable with little downtime, for anything that needs to change a lot rust is not there yet, it has lots of sharp corners like not being able to make a factory interface that returns another interface (thogh this is coming in a few months), in general it's hard to do non-leaky abstractions in rust ATM, I do think it will get there in a few years once the few sharp corners are gone.

But having made a microservice in rust it is the most stable software I ever written, you are basically paying upfront any null reference and thread safety issue I would have needed to debug. It probably did not save me time, but it definitely was a better experience to write

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