On: Why use Rust on the back end?

[alex_lav]

I wish this was less of a contentious conversation. Liking a piece of technology and being able to derive maximal value from it is like 90% of the battle. If your team dislikes a tool, they'll use it suboptimally. All of the song and dance around why some language or framework is better than all the others is usually irrelevant - a team that hates Rust but tries to use it will derive less value from their tooling than a team that loves PHP. It's not rocket science, and preference isn't a bad thing.

[falcolas → alex_lav]

Catering to a teams preference also gives you a free morale boost.

And in the current economy of random mass layoffs, any morale boosters you can find will matter more.