So let's say I'm building a webapp.

Why would i want to choose Rust? "Speed" and "not requiring as much of a memory footprint as well as more service uptime with less crashes".

I dunno man. I'm not saying those aren't interesting but I'm not sure that when it comes to web development that those are big hang ups.

There's got to be something more compelling IMO before you swing away from a fairly rich and frankly developer rich pool in JavaScript land...

Granted I enjoyed the article and my interest is piqued but that's it.