[btmcnellis]

Rust is a great language, but how do you scale a Rust team? It’s a hard language to learn without a ton of developers out there. I suppose you could hire C/C++ devs, but if you’re just making a fairly standard SAAS Web app, it might be hard to pull those people over. Rust feels like overkill for your typical Web service to me.

[1ba9115454]

There's a tradeoff, a high inital cognitive load for people learning the language vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production.

There are plenty of people who have spent time learning rust but haven't had a chance to use it on a production project. I would start looking there.

[erikbye]

> vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production.

It has not been proved large, long-lived Rust projects have fewer bugs than large, long-lived Python/Ruby projects.

[Scarbutt]

There's a tradeoff, a high inital cognitive load for people learning the language vs the long term pay off of less bugs in production.

That's not how startups work.

[ronanyeah]

Yeah I would just find a motivated junior Node.js dev, and commit to training them up for a month or so.