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by rocky_raccoon 491 days ago
What is the competitive landscape looking like these days for Rust web frameworks? I couldn't help but feel a bit insecure last time I was exploring the various options because none of them seemed to have the maturity or longevity of frameworks from other languages (for obvious reasons).

Is there one framework that stands out from the rest from an "investment risk" perspective? In other words, if my company is going to choose a framework to build a website, which one has the lowest odds of burning me by becoming abandoned or unsupported?
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norman784 491 days ago
I would say pick Axum or Actix, these are the go to right now with lower risk to be abandoned, But they aren't batteries included. Here is a list of blessed[0] libraries that might help you to choose the most popular ones in their respective category, but at the end depends on you to pick the one that has the biggest community.

My go to is Axum + sqlx most of the time.

[0] https://blessed.rs

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0rzech 478 days ago
Pretty surprised not to see SNAFU [1] on that list. Very comfortable to use, kind of a mix of thiserror [2] and anyhow [3] I think.

[1] https://github.com/shepmaster/snafu

[2] https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror

[3] https://github.com/dtolnay/anyhow

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skldj28d2 491 days ago
Axum is most likely to be supported long term since it has quite a bit of support and is a Tokio project but it's not nearly as batteries included as something like Rails or Django. I doubt any of the current batteries included Rust web frameworks will last.
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