I'm using Rocket for a small production application for my PhD project. One supervisor recently took over the project and asked me where he could connect a log stream to detect crashes. I said: "I don't know. I never have crashes". At the same time, maximum memory consumption is about 15 MB (3% of 512 MB) and CPU load 0.1% on a Starter instance on Render.
So credits to the Rocket maintainers for making Rocket such a reliable piece of software!
do you think it would be hard to transition to Rust and use Rocket?
I mostly just python and kotlin as my languages
Yes Rust helps bring in the next generation of Linux devs. It needs to to survive. But it's not because young people like Rust, it's because C developers like rust too.
Yes, Rust has unsafe and unsafe rust is trickier to get right, but you use it opt in and it's only a small amount if the code. Zig is still having unsoundness bugs in relatively simple code
And from what I see, Rust can sort of make it easier by making you think about the lifetime of the memory while coding and that's why I really wanted to learn Rust