[thallada]

It really sucks when you are the only one on your team that knows Rust. I whole-heartedly think that I'd be more productive and write better backend code in Rust than JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Ruby from my experiences of using Rust in side-projects. But I have to suffer because I cannot make the case of rewriting our backend and teaching all the devs Rust.

So my only choice if I want to use Rust is to leave the company, but it's really hard to find other companies that primarily use Rust. The majority of the ones that do are crypto/blockchain related or doing something extremely low-level or out of my wheelhouse since they assume you're also comfortable with writing C++. I'm primarily a web developer and I hardly see any web startups choosing Rust.

[hot_gril]

We need to do that movie thing where two people switch places and pretend to be each other, that way we swap jobs. Cause where I work, we write web backends in C++ purely because people there want to use a "real language." Not only do I hate it, but they have a hard time hiring people cause all those kinds of candidates want to do lower-level stuff.

[eYrKEC2]

The speed of rust out of the box is insane. I sped up one python endpoint by a factor of 100x with Rust (not 100%, 10,000%). If you can get 1 endpoint that is causing performance issues to be written in Rust, it may be the skinny end of the wedge. You obviously shouldn't sneak that in, but if you get buy-in, then it may start the process.