> Sure, you can move faster without Rust for now; but you'll pay the price later on.
The flip side argument for an early stage company is that if they can’t move fast they may not survive. Not having tech debt is great, but it’s better to have tech debt and be alive than no tech debt and out of business.
To be clear, I’m not personally taking a hardline position on either side here. I think these kinds of choices are always a balancing act. Moving too fast can kill your business just as effectively as moving too slow: it’s just as hard to ship changes to a permanently on fire ball of spaghetti as it is a pristinely typed piece of clockwork, and sometimes harder.
The flip side argument for an early stage company is that if they can’t move fast they may not survive. Not having tech debt is great, but it’s better to have tech debt and be alive than no tech debt and out of business.
To be clear, I’m not personally taking a hardline position on either side here. I think these kinds of choices are always a balancing act. Moving too fast can kill your business just as effectively as moving too slow: it’s just as hard to ship changes to a permanently on fire ball of spaghetti as it is a pristinely typed piece of clockwork, and sometimes harder.