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Rust has some great and useful web frameworks that are a joy to use, once you understand what is going on. For example, in Axum, they use traits cleverly to allow you to use dependency injection the same way that fastapi uses it. But at least when I started using it, that wasn’t an insight made bluntly clear with tutorials as good as tiangolo’s. Instead, I had to piece it together via examples in the axum repo as wel…
> I like to make silly things, and I also like to put in minimal effort for those silly things. I also like to make things in Rust… I think this part is perhaps the silliest part of a very silly article. If you really like to put in a minimal effort then why on earth would you use Rust? If you want efficiency, memory management and a compiled modern language just use Go. Then you won’t even need anything but the stan…
My problem wasn't so much dealing with memory management, but trying to put an upper bound on memory usage and failing nicely when that upper bound is met. I generally don't like working with garbage-collected languages, or having to use some niche application-specific language when I can just use a general-purpose language instead.
Yeah yeah I know Framework is great and good for stability or something, but using a framework makes something that I enjoy (programming) feel more like filing out my taxes, just so I can end up with a mediocre CRUD application that more or less works for the project I am working on.
I have removed myself to from the web and programming almost instantly became more fun for me again.
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What kind of logic is this... The Rust language is quite rigorous, so web frameworks on it should also be equally laborious to work with? You have to roll your own authentication, you have to do your own routing, you have to do ad-hoc string manipulation instead of templates?... The person likes writing in Rust, and would like to have a batteries-included web framework so they can tie together a web app quickly on th…
If you find the language rigorous, a web framework can't magically do away with that. It's genuinely illogical to believe so. There are plenty of web frameworks on Rust that are quite nice to use, but they are still Rust, with all its shortcomings in the same way Django is still Python with all its shortcomings. What you're asking for is a DSL built on top of Rust for the purpose of creating web apps.
Possible unpopular opinion: Rust is a systems language, doing "web work" in Rust is a waste of effort as there are much better languages and ecosystems for that.
You can do dependency injection in Rust to share connection pools just like you would in Java, and it's super simple to write threaded background tasks.
Google gave a talk recently that said they measured Rust developers as no less efficient or productive than Go developers [1].
It's a fantastic language and you shouldn't ever limit yourself to systems programming with Rust. It can do so much more than that.
Possible unpopular opinion: Rust is a systems language, doing "web work" in Rust is a waste of effort as there are much better languages and ecosystems for that.
Having a rust alternative to something like libmicrohttpd would be nice and I would use it.
What make rust better than any language when the bottleneck is the network or the database?
For new web applications, why recommend alternatives to Next.js? How do you convince someone to use an alternative? The knowledge needed to understand why will help you get close enough in Next.js anyway.
I want to make an app in Rust that hosts Servo in it with my business logic in maybe SciterJS - like electron but hopefully lighter?
Something, just a business software guy who wants something with more control than an webapp and not so heavy like electron.