---
title: "Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-rust-at-a-startup-a-cautionary-tale-xiyj1-2ta
source_url: https://mdwdotla.medium.com/using-rust-at-a-startup-a-cautionary-tale-42ab823d9454?source=rss------rust-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2022-11-24T02:03:27.532Z
updated: 2022-11-24T02:03:27.531Z
tags: ["python", "google", "startup", "performance", "golang", "rust", "productivity"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 28
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 9 min read · 28 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Using Rust at a startup will almost certainly involve a nontrivial productivity hit that could be a major factor if you are trying to move fast. With Rust, one needs to learn entirely new ideas — things like lifetimes, ownership, and the borrow checker. Rust has a huge learning curve, even for experienced programmers.

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**@mikelogaciuk** · 1 upvotes

> As for Pythonista and Rubyist, none any language scares me more than Rust 🤯🤣

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