Comment by slight

I mostly work with PHP in my day job and I've been following Rust so had an idea about its constraints but hadn't written any. I decided to port a personal web project I've been working on to Rust as my first attempt at the language and was able to port the core classes and get some other initial stuff up (web framework mainly) in about a day. It was a lot simpler than I expected. With the IDEA plugin and a bit more experience I think I can be about as productive in Rust as with PHP, and that's coming from about 17 years PHP experience.

Edit: With the caveat that the number of available libraries and SDKs is still low, but in the case of PHP that was the case until the last couple of years anyway after Composer and Packagist came along.