Rocket, Rust Web Framework, v0.3: Fairings, TLS, Private Cookies

Post by mercurial » Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 9:34 AM UTC

biokoda wrote: post #56

eptcyka wrote: post #33

It's really a shame they haven't jumped on tokio yet. Then again, I tried to look at the code, and it didn't seem to be a simple dropin thing to move over to tokio.

It's far from clear if tokio is not a dead end.

Post by StavrosK » Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 9:50 AM UTC

yen223 wrote: post #53

StavrosK wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't Postgres worth coupling to? SQLite is a close favorite, for different reasons.

Web servers and database management are two vastly different domains. I'm wary of frameworks that attempt to impose an opinion on both.

Post by sbenitez » Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 10:20 AM UTC

bpicolo wrote: post #28

Hey Sergio, Regarding fairings, it seems a missing "middleware" case might be the sorts of things that cause redirects on entry (e.g. redirect routes with/without trailing slashes to the latter as a super trivial example). Is that something you'd expect to support in some way? I think that's something that doesn't feel like it maps either to guards or fairings well at the moment. I did see where you mentioned your di…

  on_request => |request, _| {
      if request.uri().path().ends_with('/') {
          let new_path = request.uri().path()[..-1];
          request.set_uri(URI::new(new_path));
      }
  }

  on_response => |request, response| {
      if response.status() == Status::NotFound && request.uri().path().ends_with('/') {
          response.set_status(Status::Found);
          response.set_header(Location(request.uri().path()[..-1]));
          response.take_body();
      }
  }

Post by OJFord » Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 1:30 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #20

dvnguyen wrote: post #18

I don't have any experience in Rust. From what I read, Rust is a low level / system programming language. Comparing to dynamic languages like Python, I understand that Rust is much faster. However, Python is fast enough for most web applications. So why should I use Rust in web development? Even if the library ecosystem were mature enough, could I expect my productivity could become nearly high as in Python?

I'd say it's true that Python is fast enough for most web servers. Rather than strictly considering performance, I'd guess that people seeking to do webdev in Rust are looking to leverage Rust's static analysis to improve resilience, trading off up-front productivity for long-term maintainability (which isn't to denigrate Python, which I love, but fearless refactoring really is something that compiled langs excel at)…

Post by mercurial » Sat, Jul 15, 2017, 1:51 PM UTC

biokoda wrote: post #62

mercurial wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How so?

Overly complicated