The Rust programming language has recently gained ground in distributed systems development. What about backend development? Rust is a good choice for backend development when concerned about performance, error handling, thread safety, and fast startup times.
While these might sound enticing, remember they can be a valid tradeoff for developer productivity.
Also, in web development, a user will not notice anything slower than 100 milliseconds.
This means you are not gaining anything if you leave a simple tool that achieves 80ms to adopt a complex tool that achieves 30ms.