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I would have argued Rust isn't the right choice for a web framework unless the team is rust-first because the memory guarantees aren't really needed, and you're better off with occasional GC pauses and faster development velocity.



This is perhaps a bit off topic, but I don't think rust is a one-trick-pony IRT memory safety. I hear this a lot, mainly from Rust programmers. [surprisingly]


But what else does it really bring to the table compared to something like C# or Kotlin?


Excellent tooling (package manager, linter, compiler), exhaustive pattern matching, best-in-class mutation management, overall syntax and language features.


That’s my take as well. To each their own, but for me there are other, GC-ed, languages that are performant enough and way more productive (and I love Rust!)




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