When writing a web service in Rust you may be tempted to do careful research based on your use case, to tailor your code to fit the needs of a typed language with strict memory safety, and to take a pragmatic approach to development. Doing things this way might make …

Wrote an article about my extended skill issues and failures at writing Rust for the web. Luckily managed to get back on track recently.

  • BB_C@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    Definitely don’t use axum, which provides a simple interface for routes by using derived traits. Their release cycle is way shorter, which makes them more dangerous, and they’re part of the same github user as tokio, which means they’re shilling their own product.

    this but (semi)-unironucally