I guess my post wasn't a critique of the blog post, it was a somewhat related story. I do actually agree with the blog post about not rewriting something that works. In my case it's a totally new project but it was my previous experience with Rails that made me not want to try it again for this particular project.

The API I'm working on is pretty simple and I want to finish it and forget about it so in my circumstances it seems that rust is a better choice.