[lewisinc]

Well yeah, that was the point: "While there exist a number of high-level, Flask or Django like frameworks that abstract away most of the fun about this, we will opt for using the slightly lower-level hyper library to handle HTTP..."

You should check out Rocket or Actix-Web or Gotham for something a bit more higher-level. Also know that it's Rust we're talking about - it's an expressive languages, but it's also a systems language, if you want something you can toss in a breakpoint and start introspecting or experimenting you'll probably want Ruby or Elixir.