Discussion on: What are your biggest obstacles/questions for moving from NodeJS to Rust?

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I think the reason I wouldn't write a webapp in Rust is the same reason I wouldn't write it in C or C++: the problems I'd be solving don't feel like a good fit for the language.

Don't get me wrong, I like Rust. But the idea of thinking about types of int, the borrow checker, and such forth, when in all likelihood I'll be writing an HTML template from a database, seems like an unnecessary overhead.

But you could convince me otherwise!

Bastian Gruber • Mar 24 '19

That's a fair point!

I would argue two things:

You won't face many of Rust features when handling simple tasks, yet you get all the benefits of safety and speed
To learn Rust to serve templates might be an overkill (maybe not)

However, omce you build your first few apps with Rust, you will see:

You grew as a developer
You don't face and you don't have to compeltely understand everything for the most part

It's a good feedback I think most people face, so I will get into that in more detail in the future!