> It's insanely popular, and it's such a nice and low defect rate language to write web endpoints in. It's actually highly productive in this use case.

I concur. Lots of folks here and elsewhere will make claims about how Rust isn't a good fit for this space because _it's a systems language_ or because the iteration cycle is too slow and it isn't meant to replace Python/JavaScript/whatever, anyways. To that, I call BS. It's (objectively) a general purpose programming language and can be used to do whatever you need it to.

To your point, I've also found it extremely productive for web development. Even if it does require more work up front, that's (usually) work you're not doing on the back-end chasing and squashing bugs or trying to cover corner cases which you hadn't accounted for -- but the Rust compiler would have.