No, this is actually an earth-shattering revelation:

A bare metal systems programming language can be used for web backend development. Let that sink in.

Rust has a great type system, and because of this and the compiler, the quality of code you wind up writing is naturally extremely high. You'll write code with fewer defects than in other compiled languages like Go or Java. And it's even more pronounced against languages like Javascript, Ruby, and Python.

You can write backend web code in Rust quickly, too. There's minimal performance or development velocity loss, and you produce code that is much higher quality and easier to maintain.

And it's fast, doesn't GC, can run on cheap VMs. You get all of this for free.

This is the shocking statement that is being made.