Looks cool, but does not appear to be FOSS, please correct me if I'm wrong.

That all makes sense.

That all makes a lot of sense. I really only ever got remotely competent with Python, and the one university course I did in c was rough. I passed it, but felt like I barely understood what I was doing the whole time.

I can understand how ease of writing and general community mindshare can be the most important factors.

For those of us who have never used Rust, and mostly just heard good things... why is Rust bad for a web app and UI? I've heard it's safer from memory vulnerabilities, and easier to code than most low-level languages, and much faster than high-level languages.

I chose Lemmy because it's written in Rust, and kbin is written in PHP.

And that problem is...?

I was about to post a snarky comment about how you should link to Cory's own blog pluralistic.net instead of medium but it seems this article isn't on pluralistic (yet?)

Week later edit: it got posted to pluralistic finally.