I'm my experience this is definitely where rust shined. The language wasn't really what made the project succeed so much as having relatively curious, meticulous, detail-oriented people on hand who were interested in solving hard problems.
Sometimes I thought our teams would be a terrible fit for more cookie-cutter applications where rapid development and deployment was the primary objective. We got into the weeds all the time (sometimes because of rust itself), but it happened to be important to do so.
Had we built those projects with JavaScript or Python I suspect the outcomes would have been worse for reasons apart from the language choice.
Sometimes I thought our teams would be a terrible fit for more cookie-cutter applications where rapid development and deployment was the primary objective. We got into the weeds all the time (sometimes because of rust itself), but it happened to be important to do so.
Had we built those projects with JavaScript or Python I suspect the outcomes would have been worse for reasons apart from the language choice.