Comment by apatheticonion

I know, haha. It's a bit of an absolute statement but as far as all of the features I look for in the context of creating scalable and maintainable software (especially in the age of agent-assisted coding) - Rust has been the most productive, least frustrating language I have worked with.

It's basically TypeScript but runtime exceptions are impossible. If it compiles, it works - so the _only_ thing you worry about is how you organised your code (abstractions, domains, etc) and if the logic is correct.

It saves a lot of time in PR reviews because you only really complain about logic or code organization.

By contrast, C#, Go, Java all have runtime exceptions for things like null pointers and race conditions. That means, when reviewing code, you have to be on the lookout for those things in addition to the logic and structure.

On the single threaded side, TypeScript is great, but JavaScript runtime performance and resource utilization is obscene. With Rust basically being TypeScript but without those limitations (and also natively supporting more frontend frameworks without transpilers), what is the use case for TypeScript (other than legacy software already being written in JavaScript or TypeScript)?

You can write Rust with your eyes closed and it'll probably work.