> But I would argue whatever you gain back from lowered hosting expenses probably aren't worth the extra development time & costs that come with lower level languages, but yes that depends on what you are writing.

I mean... I've used both python and go. And in my opinion, python doesn't really have much higher developer velocity.

I'd never do web dev in C++, but Rust seems like a mixed bag. It is a bit notorious for having a steep learning curve. But once people are productive, it's arguably a higher level language than python.