Rust can give you speed and safety in one package. But you sacrifice ease of coding, especially as the IDE ecosystem is not there yet in terms of ease of use.
I've taken a few apps from Python to C#/F# and seen speed increases around 50x. With Rust I could increase the speed from C#/F# by around a factor of 10x for string heavy applications processing large files. So the speed difference might be 500x between a Python and Rust application (depends HEAVILY on the problem you're solving though, a lot of the problems that can be vectorized easily work pretty fast in Python).
I'd say I'm faster at writing F# than at Python, because the type system helps me build more easily maintainable code, and the functional style is better for the way I think (I grew up with structural, learned OO in uni and thought most of it is bananas and more obfuscation than helping, and I'm happy the world is now slowly getting to something sensible again). It takes me a bit longer to write Rust programs though.
Cargo is the best build system of the 3 languages though, you can easily add crates (imports) and the build system handles everything, even unit testing. I gotta say on the project setup front Rust with Cargo is much better than any other language I know.
And I think once we get good IDEs with robust code completion and error detection, I can become quite fast at Rust as well.
RLS works just fine on my Linux box, error detection and completion and formatting. Debugging is so so, not very good.
But on my Mac box, it's always crashing.
For me it's a) crashing quite often on Windows and Linux and b) doesn't really autocomplete anything beyond really simple cases where I don't need it like "Vec::<String>::" will give me new. But on most things it's just really awful.
Error detection, at least in VSCode is only displayed after compiling, that might be the plugin though.
I've taken a few apps from Python to C#/F# and seen speed increases around 50x. With Rust I could increase the speed from C#/F# by around a factor of 10x for string heavy applications processing large files. So the speed difference might be 500x between a Python and Rust application (depends HEAVILY on the problem you're solving though, a lot of the problems that can be vectorized easily work pretty fast in Python).
I'd say I'm faster at writing F# than at Python, because the type system helps me build more easily maintainable code, and the functional style is better for the way I think (I grew up with structural, learned OO in uni and thought most of it is bananas and more obfuscation than helping, and I'm happy the world is now slowly getting to something sensible again). It takes me a bit longer to write Rust programs though.
Cargo is the best build system of the 3 languages though, you can easily add crates (imports) and the build system handles everything, even unit testing. I gotta say on the project setup front Rust with Cargo is much better than any other language I know.
And I think once we get good IDEs with robust code completion and error detection, I can become quite fast at Rust as well.