Picking Rust or TypeScript for a new service, honestly

I get asked which language to use for a new backend service more often than any other question, and the honest answer is that it depends on which failure mode you can tolerate at 3am. TypeScript gets you to a working service faster and your whole team can read it. Rust costs you more up front but removes entire classes of memory and concurrency bugs before they ever reach production. I pick per-service, not per-company.