[carllerche]

I didn't expect to see this here yet. We opened up the repo because we ran out of private CI usage. A blog post is coming next week :). Happy to answer questions here though.

One thing to keep in mind, the main reason for Topcoat to exist is that many organizations are already using Rust for infrastructure-level or performance sensitive reasons and often just want to build a web app using the programming language they already use.

[swaptr]

Great initiative from the folks at tokio. How does it aim to be different from loco.rs https://github.com/loco-rs/loco?

[carllerche]

Both Loco and Topcoat aims to be "batteries included" but that means very different things to each project. Topcoat aims to make it easy to build reactive apps without writing any browser JS (or Rust). It uses a similar strategy to Hotwire, HTMX, Datastar, ... It also will default to using the Toasty ORM (though topcoat is modular so you a swap it out). Topcoat is very young and there is a lot more to build.

[dxxvi]

The last loco.rs release was 1 year ago. I wonder what happens with it.

[jonahx]

I'll say that first code snippet is a fantastic TLDR.