[amelius]

Personally I don't like domain-specific sugared syntax. I prefer clarity above all, especially since I hope to spend the least possible amount of time in the networking domain, and this means I'd otherwise have to relearn the syntax whenever I have to dig into the code again.

[iopq]

When digging into new projects I always find that there's going to be cognitive overhead because of certain abstractions.

    let always_forward = Route::ranked(1, Get, "/", forward);

this is a normal function call, but what does it mean? Is that really better than special syntax that desugars to this code?

[amelius]

Yes, because function calls are much easier to trace down than special syntax.