Rust vs. Python for Web Infrastructure: What We Chose and Why The Rust-vs-Python debate is exhausting. Both are excellent. The right choice depends on what you're building, who is building it, and how fast you need to ship. What We Build At Graham Miranda UG, our stack has three parts: Query dispatcher (Python/FastAPI) — Dispatches searches to 8-12 sources Result ranker (Python) — Normalizes and scores cross-source results Frontend (Next.js/TypeScript) — SSR, minimal client-side JS Why Python Won Developer Velocity Our team knows Python. Moving to Rust would mean 3-6 months of learning before productive work. In a startup, that's death. Ecosystem Maturity Python's web ecosystem is unmatched: FastAPI: async, typed, OpenAPI-native Celery: battle-tested distributed tasks BeautifulSoup + lxml: 20 years of HTML parsing refinement Playwright: best-in-class browser automation Async Performance Python 3.11+ async is fast enough for our workload. 3,000 queries/day on a single VPS.…