For one offs, sure. But once you get to a script executed multiple times it doesn't take very long before you have payed off the rust compile time. Especially if it is fairly simple (as in, you can do everything with just rust std lib and not a bunch of rust libs).
Almost all the rust compilation times come from needing to build the supporting libs. For simple scripts, it's very possible to get away with just using the std lib.
Almost all the rust compilation times come from needing to build the supporting libs. For simple scripts, it's very possible to get away with just using the std lib.