[jayy-lmao]

I’ve got to disagree a little. Revealing my bias: I’m a former TS full stack who now works full time in a company that uses Rust on the backend (not my choice). I’ve done so for over a year now.

I find it’s a bit like C# in some ways, especially it’s ability to scale the codebase. Code navigation is incredibly clear and the libraries have been great. The experience of using async-graphql and sqlx is unbelievably intuitive.

For the bad: the compilation times can still be a little slow (especially in CI). This sometimes makes dev a just slightly awkward. I’ve had to contribute to a couple of libraries we depend on because they are still quite young, and we’ve had to move web framework once. Hiring might also be a slight challenge.

I’m not sure if I’d necessarily pick it again if I was to choose for a small business again - but frankly using it has still been a pleasure and the ecosystem is only feeling better.

[dlahoda]

use rust distributed cached builds, couple liners on ci. vendor stuff. for example nix crane can be good.