[NiceGuy_Ty]

I love me some akka. Actix would be the actual rust comparison, since it's also an actor system being leveraged to provide web features. You have to dig into Tokio/futures to get access to streams, which atm is still not at 1.0.

[lmm]

I'm not comparing it as an "actor thing", I'm comparing it as a server-side HTTP framework; the part I care about is not whether the implementation uses actors underneath, but whether the routing and logic can be expressed in plain old code that can be refactored according to the normal rules of the language, with full type safety, with the ability to handle effect-like types...

(I hate akka and actors, but as a user of akka-http you don't have to touch them.)