[echelon]

Love your story here! You're not doing it wrong at all.

> Has anyone else bootstrapped using Rust? What were your experiences?

We scaled several websites to 6M+ MAUs on Actix/SQLx and ran that on the lowest tier VMs.

Rust is God Mode for efficient and scalable HTTP services. Moreover, the type safety and robust type system give us incredible confidence that our software is defect free.

[lukaesch]

Thanks for sharing your experience! It's impressive to hear about your success with Actix/SQLx and Rust's scalability and efficiency. Knowing Rust can handle such scale is encouraging and gives us confidence for future growth!

While we currently have fewer users, I've also found Rust's type safety and robust system invaluable for building reliable software. In my experience, if it compiles, it just works—quite a contrast to dealing with runtime error minefields in Python, Java, or TypeScript.

[katangafor]

That is absolutely wild!!

I've put off learning rust for so long. I really tried to get into it once, and ended up learning clojure instead lol. Rust just had too many concepts at once for me to learn, probably because I've only ever used garbage-collected languages.

But hearing this type of stuff always makes me want to try again

[lukaesch]

Absolutely, give it another try! I've spent much of my life with GCed languages too. Axum, SQLite with SQLx, and Askama form a dev-friendly combo.

Once you grasp Rust's concepts, you'll find the control and efficiency rewarding. It's worth the effort!