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Rust offers a few things over Node in my experience: - Super fast startup - Single binary distribution (you can integrate your static assets with rust-embed) - Minuscule ram consumption (0.5MB for a graphql server) - Cargo build system is much easier to work with than webpack - No mismatches between TS types and JS source

However the big caveat is the documentation and libraries are still quite lacking

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Anything but the last one doesn't really matter for my case. NodeJS app startup takes about 4-5 seconds at most. Binary could theoretically be well into gigabytes for it to make any difference. I'm a pure backend developer, so I don't use webpack.

And the mismatch between TS and JS is a pain, but that's why I'm looking forward to Deno.

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