[_alxk]

Software Engineers are generally intelligent people.

Intelligent animals need stimulation or they get bored and depressed.

I think collectively, "let's move to Rust" is at least partially because we're not challenged enough by writing the same CRUD app for the 20th time in the same language we've been using for the last 5-10 years, and we want to leave our mark in a new ecosystem by implementing whatever is missing.

Some people want to optimise for "fun/exciting/different" while others seem to be aiming for "known/just works, incidentally boring".

We probably need to find the right middle; how do we keep it fun and challenging while keeping it simple and maintainable.

[Wazako]

On the web backend side, I find that rust has a nice future in support of other backend. considering the difficulty to manage websocket in PHP or memory with NodeJs.

[0xdeadbeefbabe]

To keep it fun someone probably has to do the boring work of making things backward compatible.