In practical perspectives, I’m mostly concerned about computer resources usage; I have computer resources constraints. So using Rust would benefit on that. But it is for a Web application backend. So, is it worth it having to learn Rust + Tokio + Axum, … in this specific situation? Also, that this is mostly for initially prototyping an application. Also considering if I add developers in the future, they would most likely not be familiar with Rust, but with more popular frameworks such as Node.

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    1 year ago

    For very simple backends, it’s very unlikely you’ll get any significant number of bugs with an experienced team, and if performance isn’t really a concern, then Rust being faster isn’t really relevant. For anything more complex than a simple backend, I’d agree that Rust becomes a lot more appealing, but if you just need to throw together something that handles user profiles or something in a very simple manner, it really doesn’t make a difference what language you do it in as long as you write a few tests to make sure everything works.