Is #RustLang really 5x more expensive and slower to develop with than Kotlin or…

InfoQ@techhub.social · 2026-07-21 14:59

Is #RustLang really 5x more expensive and slower to develop with than Kotlin or Go? Ruth Linehan (Senior Software Engineer at Momento) challenges that myth.

Drawing from 3+ years of moving production backend services from Kotlin to Rust, she shows how Rust’s compiler, borrow checker, and compile-time safety drastically shorten the developer feedback loop - reducing total engineering costs.

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The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect

Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity and engineering overhead. She discusses the ergonomics of the Rust borrow checker, shares how compile-time safety shortens the developer feedback loop, and profiles how tools like Criterion and flamegraphs optimize concurrent code paths.

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