[dbcfd]

I'm in the same boat, at least for actix-web. The static lifetimes on the handlers (and I think state) makes some things really painful, but is also part of the reason it gets the speed it does.

The actix library is fairly nice though, but still a few cases where the use of globals and/or statics introduces problems.

[steveklabnik]

We've got some stuff in the pipeline that should relax that requirement. It plus async/await (which has a PR open in the compiler) should make all of this way easier.

[dbcfd]

Good to hear. Could use box to get around the static stuff, but given the power of lifetimes, would much rather be able to use lifetimes correctly to not have to box everything.

One other thing that wasn't really apparent but would have made my life easier is a way to use an actor to handle a request, so I could have access to a context for thread related activities (e.g. tokio handles). It feels wrong to just use Arbiter::handle there, especially for testable code.