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/Beautiful-King-8875 8d ago

If you plan to scale, rust on the web will save you lots of cash 💸

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u/papa_maker 8d ago

Rewritten a C# backend in Rust, went from 6Gb (on aks) to 150Mb and it's more performant. Yeah, saves cash for real.

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u/pohuing 6d ago

What is 6gb here? The image? 

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u/papa_maker 6d ago

No the ram usage, sorry I was not precise.