PHP has experienced a 400% performance increase between 5.6 and 7, and another 20% between 7 and 8. It's fast enough for most use cases, and if you need a specialized use case, use a specialized language."
It was an AI-based news feed. What it did. You could read news on your favorite news website and it showed you missing details for articles that were present in articles from other news outlets.
After 16 years of work, mostly as a freelance developer for multiple companies, I have a burnout. Fortunately, it's not an "I don't want to work anymore" - last week I had the first day that I just didn't want to work. But it never happened before. So it's like 7/10 on burnoutmetter.
But what is the hardest thing for me is that I'm not able to mobilize myself to work on my projects. I have two good ideas. It's possible that I would be able to monetize these ideas. But I'm not able to move forward. Over the years I tried to work on more than 10 own projects and none of these projects were successful. Should I start work on the 11'th and fail again? I burned out on failings ;)
"There's nothing inherent to C that prevents bad API designs like this."
I don't have any data to back this and library interface designs are so personal taste-prone, but I would say that the average Rust crate has a better API than the average C library.
Rust could help with some vulnerabilities that are not related to memory safety too. It's type system can help you preventing vulnerabilities that are caused by logic mistakes.