I agree. I have written server software my entire career, and the need for performance is a corner case in my experience. The never crash in runtime aspect of rust should get much more attention (I know it can panic, but that really never happens in practice unless you use unwrap or smilar).
I also think the defaults are fine, so I was quite surprised to see 14% modify the settings. That is much higher than I expected.
But is the desktop really the most relevant measurement? Wouldn't it be more relevant to talk about "primary" devices? When I grew up, the desktop was what people used to connect with Internet and everything that comes with that. Hence, Linux on the desktop seemed to be relevant. Now, that is still relevant in relation to work and gaming, but for general use people use other devices. So instead of "on the desktop" I think we should talk about "for work", "for gaming" and "for programming".
Are they really? Didn't you press a button that said "Buy"? Just because they want things to be something else, doesn't mean that the meaning of the words changed.
Tested to search for a stomp rust crate and got horrible results. So, I guess that you should test the different search engines with your use case and see which one fits that.
You don't have to use it....
It might be interesting to watch the Jackie Chan episode of Every Frame is a Painting, for an analysis of the difference between Hollywood and Hong Kong. This will explain why Jackie Chan is so much better in his Hong Kong movies.
Well, that is why some prefer a copyleft license, like the MPL.
Short about the garage myth https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1103/gallery.business_creation_myths/4.html
When you compare "idea to deployment" speed, a dynamic language will always win. However, much of this win is due to a dynamic language will let you deploy with a lot of bugs. So, you will then have to spend lot of time fixing production issues. Rust will force you to fix most of these issues before you can deploy, hence it feels slower in this aspect. I previously worked for 10 years with a huge perl code base, and I trade the deployment speed for stability in production any time.
In short, running an instance requires quite a bit of work, so having a really small instance might be quiet a challenge. Programming.dev is still niche, but large enough to not be a one man show.
At least he is to stand trial, in other countries they are just elected again and given a second attempt at the coup.