Over a decade ago when Rails was the shiny new thing I wrote an online ordering system that batched received orders then sent out orders to suppliers for whatever the customers ordered. It was easy enough to get the app setup and it didn't often need any new features but I remember really struggling to get it up to date and working with each new rails version. My memory is clouded by both time and my inexperience at the time but even though the app was "done" it never actually felt finished because I felt the need to continually update to the new version of rails just in case I did want to take advantage of of the new features in newer versions rails.

Anyway over 10 years later now and I find myself writing an API and my initial thinking was to return to rails but then I remembered the bad experience (which was probably my own fault I acknowledge).

Now I find myself writing this API in Rust because the ethos that an app can actually be done is attractive to me. It's taking me longer to write but hopefully I've made a good decision!