I use it professionally and can't disagree more with this statement.

shpongled · on Sept 20, 2023

I also use it professionally, for both web apps and HPC algorithms.

Are there some things faster to write in python? Sure. But I find the mental overhead is significantly less (for me) in Rust, and overall dev time is about equal, since I typically hit far fewer bugs and spend less time reading docs in Rust. I can't remember the last time I hit a footgun in Rust. Seems I hit one every week in python.

We recently migrated a ~10k SLOC Django JSON API server to axum/sqlx (Rust). I couldn't be happier - faster to ship new features, faster to refactor, fewer bugs, and response times got about 10x quicker.

duped · on Sept 22, 2023

I work a lot on async code with data structures that need interior mutability and it's kind of a pathological case for borrow checking. Everything is effectively wrapped in Arc<RwLock<_>> which adds a bunch of noise to method implementations.