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by xrd 1647 days ago
I've dabbled in rust and it's been good but I've never progressed further than just modifying existing codebases.

I've yet to find a good toolkit/framework that helps me build web apps. I stick to JavaScript merely because it's a language that allows me to do most of what I want, in a tolerable way, in most situations, on both the client and server.

But, I know the problems with it. And there are a lot.

Is there a toolkit for building web apps that has the ergonomics of something like Svelte? Or, at least is a toolkit that radically simplifies building things in the client with wasm?

Until I find that, I'm just going to stick with JavaScript, only because it's more important for me to ship quick prototypes than build something perfect before I know what that is.

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> I've yet to find a good toolkit/framework that helps me build web apps.

Ironically, there's a sibling comment complaining about how so much of the Rust dev ecosystem is just people making "nothing more than build tools for web development". You can be sure that people are just whining when they can't even get their story straight.

Why would different individuals need to "get their story straight" just because they discussing a similar subject? The "there aren't enough web tools" folks and the "there's too much effort spent on web tools" people are not a collective mind. They are each individuals with their own experiences. What does it mean for them to "get their story straight"?