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by markus2012 3908 days ago
I have also switched to Rust for backend work.

I'm using Iron instead of Nickel. Not sure who will become more popular over time...

Because of the language (no null, bounds checking, option/result types, etc.) and borrow checker I find I rarely have to 'hot reload' or even test my code. I realize that sounds surprising. I'm not doing any HTML templating in Rust - that's better done in JavaScript on the client - so I don't have the edit/compile/test cycle for every tweak to the UI.