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Yes. It "works". However deciding to use Actix/Warp means throwing away years and years of work in the rails and ruby world.

Rails is mature, robust, and has a huge ecosystem with rubygems. Rust (when it comes to web stuff) is not. "it works" does not pass my litmus test. With Actix/Warp I have to implement stuff by hand that either comes by default with rails or already exists in a gem.

I like Rust but I'm not a zealot. People way overestimate performance when they barely have any traffic to begin with as a small startup or even a medium sized company.

You could even use rails, and use Rust to write ruby gems instead of going with actix/warp/etc.

> insane unsafety

This was overblown. Yes, the author didn't respond appropriately, but unsafe isn't inherently dangerous. This is a stupid misconception within the Rust community and caused a lot of unnecessary drama around Actix.




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