[sgift]

> Who in their right mind wants to write a front-end in C++ or Rust? By the time you get anything done, the web has changed and you're stuck with a pile of dated code that takes too much time and costs too much money to update.

This has been repeated again and again, but the proof that you are programming faster in JS than in Rust (or whatever language you want) is very lacking. At least, if you want to use your code longer than two days, because that's the time many of those "I just write it and it will work!" JS programs stop being readable. But even then I have my doubts. Sure, if you've never used a language before you will be slower, but that doesn't make the "JS can be programmed faster" assumption correct.