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Two days ago I started to rewrite an api I made years ago in Nuxt3. The day after I finished it. Sure, I know javascript and I could reuse a small bit of code but if I would imagine switching to rust it would probably take me at least a month mostly because I don't know much about it.

The times I've actually tried Rust out it's been a struggle, to say the least, and I am a programmer with over 10 years of experience. Ok if you are the VC-funded kind of startup that needs developer hype and can afford to hire people. But if you are a bootstrapped startup I barely can think of worse languages than Rust to start with unless you've extensive experience in it.

The crates available seems sparse and of low quality. Getting back to my example, I would have to rewrite a parser from scratch most likely and only that would probably take me quite some time while in node I can just npm install it which have worked flawlessly for years.

Unless you're in a market that requires the service or product to utilize every cent of performance or is in embedded industry I think Rust is a terrible choice for a startup.