Is Rust Really Fast?

Rust is a pretty nice imperative language that has a lot of nice features in an ecosystem, but I don't actually need to like squeeze every last drop of performance out of it to achieve my goals. The fact that Rust is usually very fast is great for us, but it was not the most important consideration by any means because we're using it to build web applications and services. You do have to ask the question, like, is it fast enough? Like, does it really matter if my web server route is returning JSON, like, you know, 100 nanoseconds faster? Probably not. It's probably okay to do a bunch of clones here. Yeah.