Seriously, do people like writing boilerplate or something? Whenever I write a non Rails backend, I keep on thinking about how easy, how fast this would be done in Rails. Like I'm writing a backend right now in Rust, and while Rust is an excellent language with lots of ergonomic features, it's not a tenth as fast or fun as Rails. It's quite depressing to be writing a bunch of Rust code only to remember that this would be done in a few minutes with Rails (albeit with half the safety).

For instance, let's take writing a simple RESTful API. With Rust and Rocket, I need to build up the file structure, start writing controllers to fetch the different resources using diesel, figure out connection pools and how they link with Rocket fairings, then find I need rocket_contrib in order to automatically serialize to Json, then write out all the same routes (/ GET/POST, /:id GET/DELETE/UPDATE, etc.). Meanwhile in Rails I type `rails generate scaffold article title:string content:string`. Boom. Done.

Several times I've found myself thinking about ways of making my development experience better in Rust. Maybe I could write some macros that fix my problems. But then I'd just be reinventing Rails' metaprogramming. Ah well. I guess sometimes we need to reinvent the wheel.