[devy]

> Rust isn't magic.

Let's not going to that debate. It's a good start to improve security postures, regardless how you spin it.

But more importantly, my point is why are they doing CGI at all?

[icedchai]

There is nothing wrong with CGI. It's simply a standard to forward a request from a web server to another application using environment variables and stdio. Generally, you want your router routing, not wasting CPU and memory running admin applications that are used less than once a month.

[fomine3]

CGI is still great environment for simple webapp on embedded device. Using Rust is normally overkill and increases complexity. Python/PHP should be enough.

BTW quality of embedded webappa is mostly sucks.