Yeah, unless I am building a very performance sensitive web service, either in terms of memory or CPU efficiency, js/typescript or some other web centric language is a much easier choice, and is less costly to build in.
I'm still choosing to write some web stuff in Rust for the experience, for the fact I can compile parts to .wasm and re-use them in a browser too, I enjoy tuning things for performance, and I am not under time constraints for it.
What frameworks are recommended nowadays for Typescript? Is Express still dominant here or are there TS-first options?
Two I've been lightly following are Redwood[0] and Blitz[1]. Still a long ways behind something like Rails, but promising nonetheless.
[0] https://github.com/blitz-js/blitz [1] https://github.com/redwoodjs/redwood