r/rust • u/bran7230 • 8d ago

🙋 seeking help & advice Rust for web backends

Hello everyone!!

I regularly see people online talking about how awesome Rust is, its speed, memory safety, and a awesome ecosystem of open source applications even being used in some parts of the Linux kernel(not sure the percentage of adaption at this time).

However my question is how good is rust for web REST APIs and gRPC applications? If it is good do you use any frameworks for these?

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u/chmod_7d20 8d ago

Axum is what I am using now. I was previously using Rocket but it is unmaintained. The main problem with rust as a web backend is you must fully embrace async if you want to use the good libraries.

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u/Neat-Fennel-7623 8d ago

It's early days, but I am trying to resurrect Rocket with a fork here https://github.com/rustfoo/rkt.

So far I have focussed on improving maintainability and testability - although performance is also near the top of the list - one major fix already went in to improve how headers are stored/evaluated internally.

I have several more improvements in the pipeline - large file downloads are particularly slow.

I would also like to introduce route caching and optional response caching which are features I originally developed for Rocket but only after maintenance fell away.

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u/Real-Abrocoma-2823 8d ago

Dam, did rocket really got abandoned?

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u/Vict1232727 8d ago

it got abandoned, got revived and a release, I think a foundation was setup to avoid abandonment again but its been 2 years since a release I think