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by lowbloodsugar 1599 days ago
That is genuinely one of our dilemmas. The product makes enough to spend an extra 20x on machines (and it scales horizontally). So does the impact to developer productivity of Rust offset the 20x cost savings? New features mean new $$$, and more than enough to offset the extra runtime cost of Java.

Personally, I'm now doing hobby projects in Rust because it just feels right. But I've done entire systems in assembly, so I am a bit of a control freak. YMMV.