Rust Programming

i can't speak for the lemmy's developers but rust is basically the perfect language for backend servers

• it's incredibly fast

• it's incredibly safe

• there is clippy, a incredibly powerful tool to detect common mistakes

• statically linked libraries (bad for normal applications but ideal for servers, it's why go does it)

• incredibly powerful pattern matching

• very safe and easy-to-use generics

• sanitized macros

these are just a couple of things that came to mind. for most of rust's life it was used as a language to create backend servers and dynamically link libraries so it ended up being very good for those things