Comment by jokethrowaway

The bar for web services is low, so pretty much anything works as long as it's easy. I wouldn't call them a success story.

When things get complex, you start missing Rust's type system and bugs creep in.

In node.js there was a notable improvement when TS became the de-facto standard and API development improved significantly (if you ignore the poor tooling, transpiling, building, TS being too slow). It's still far from perfect because TS has too many escape hatches and you can't trust TS code; with Rust, if it compiles and there are no unsafe (which is rarely a problem in web services) you get a lot of compile time guarantees for free.