[IshKebab]

> I fail to understand why it's being deployed for web services type applications. IMHO it's not a good fit.

There are plenty of reasons why it's a good fit for web services. It's fast, has great tooling, a great library ecosystem, and perhaps most importantly the strong type system and borrow checker mean you write far fewer bugs than in most other languages (C++, Java, Typescript, Go etc; maybe not Haskell).

The only reason I wouldn't use it in web services is because the whole ecosystem seems to have decided that everything has to be async despite that adding a ton of complexity and almost nobody needing it.