> Does it only outperform them, or is it also a pleasant language to use?
I think you'll find a wide range of responses to this question, as personal preferences tend to vary quite a bit. For my two cents, I really enjoy using Rust, and I find myself super productive in it compared to other languages. In broad terms, I find Cargo to be miles ahead of any other build tools/language-specific package managers in terms of ergonomics, and in broad terms, I find the language to be expressive enough to save me a lot of time in having to define things I would have to in other languages and the compiler powerful enough to ensure that I don't break things when doing so. Granted, it takes time to learn how to leverage the expressiveness, and I can understand that not everyone will value this as much as things like being able to ramp up new developers quickly. I'll give the caveat that I don't actually do much web development, so my comments about expressivity/ergonomics describe the language itself and not the web ecosystem.
tl;dr Pleasant is subjective, but yes, some people (like myself!) really enjoy using it
I think you'll find a wide range of responses to this question, as personal preferences tend to vary quite a bit. For my two cents, I really enjoy using Rust, and I find myself super productive in it compared to other languages. In broad terms, I find Cargo to be miles ahead of any other build tools/language-specific package managers in terms of ergonomics, and in broad terms, I find the language to be expressive enough to save me a lot of time in having to define things I would have to in other languages and the compiler powerful enough to ensure that I don't break things when doing so. Granted, it takes time to learn how to leverage the expressiveness, and I can understand that not everyone will value this as much as things like being able to ramp up new developers quickly. I'll give the caveat that I don't actually do much web development, so my comments about expressivity/ergonomics describe the language itself and not the web ecosystem.
tl;dr Pleasant is subjective, but yes, some people (like myself!) really enjoy using it