Then check out Iron.rs and Nickel.rs - web-frameworks in Rust :)
Yes, Rust is more complicated language but sometimes you are ready to pay this price just to get back joy of programming. And at some point in time, bugs in runtime (because of types or memory safety or race conditions) becomes so annoying, that you are ready to be thankful to any tool which can find them on compilation, even with price of more verbose code. "Typing is not a bottleneck".