Ask HN: Is the "Rust tax" (dev time) cheaper than the "RAM tax"?

I've been watching the spot prices for memory and cloud instances lately. It feels like the era of "hardware is cheap, throw Electron/JVM at it" is hitting a wall. I recently pushed a Rust binary to production for a side project simply because I couldn't afford the RAM for a Node app on the cheapest VPS tier anymore. The memory footprint is practically a rounding error compared to the interpreted/GC'd stuff I usually write. Is anyone else prioritizing Rust (or Zig/C++) purely for economic reasons now? It feels like the lack of a Garbage Collector is becoming less about performance and more about pure unit economics.