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by jashmatthews 2135 days ago
Right but I'm doing that because those are frameworks in other languages which offer a comparable developer experience.

fasthttp isn't even a web framework. It's not surprising that using a raw HTTP library is dramatically faster than using a full framework and ORM but it's also not a sustainable way to build complex web applications with 1000+ developers.
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nicoburns 2135 days ago
You don't need to have 1000 developers working on the small performance sensitive part of your application though. Split it out into its own application, and then have a small dedicated team.

I can't speak to fasthttp as I haven't used Go much, but actix-web in Rust is a full framework (not as full as something like Rails, but certainly more than mature enough to be used for production projects).

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jashmatthews 2135 days ago
I built and maintained a critical production web app using Iron for 3 years. Keeping anything like the performance advantage you see in simple benchmarks in a real app is a big challenge.
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nicoburns 2135 days ago
Well sure, that's why it only makes sense unless you actually need the performance. But if you do need the performance then implementing it in a language that is designed to enable those optimisations can make a lot more sense than trying to hack around the runtime in a slower language.
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