[jokethrowaway]

A team with no rust experience

This mirrors my experience: getting buggy software out is easier and faster in JS (or whatever you're familiar without compile guarantees), getting something out to production is easier with rust.

Sometimes you have enough senior developers and discipline to reproduce and catch obscure bugs (which happen more or less based on your software complexity) and you can fix your mess but that's not always feasible.

[KerrAvon]

The more senior I get (decades of experience now), the more I appreciate languages that simply remove the mere possibility of entire classes of bugs. Even in Objective-C — a dynamic language with compile-time type enforcement — if something very weird is happening you have to start with “is that object really what I think it is?“