thanks, i appreciate the detailed response. I do believe, though, that "least quirky", while definitively important, is not the most deciding factor here.
Axum is very young (was announced <1y ago), it has good momentum, is based on hyper and built by the tokio team. On the other hand, it has few actual projects built with it, I couldn't find a guide for it like actix or even Rocket have (it has some documentation in its docsrs documentation, but it is pretty minimal). Crucial questions like how to handle configuration, integration with database, autoreload, are left to the examples at best.
I have no doubt that these things will come if the framework matures. I'm just questioning if it should be the default choice right now, as opposed to in a year.
(Btw, I would absolutely recommend against Rocket right now, even though API wise it clicked the best with me, until it gets more maintainers and development resumes)
That's definitely a fair point on the documentation for actix-web being better (and rocket, but I agree with you on Rocket's maintenance status being problematic). Once I've got my site into a launchable state, my intention is to open up contributions on the github repo so that we can capture the wisdom of the community from all it's diverse set of perspectives. I definitely don't have all the answers myself.
Axum is very young (was announced <1y ago), it has good momentum, is based on hyper and built by the tokio team. On the other hand, it has few actual projects built with it, I couldn't find a guide for it like actix or even Rocket have (it has some documentation in its docsrs documentation, but it is pretty minimal). Crucial questions like how to handle configuration, integration with database, autoreload, are left to the examples at best.
I have no doubt that these things will come if the framework matures. I'm just questioning if it should be the default choice right now, as opposed to in a year.
(Btw, I would absolutely recommend against Rocket right now, even though API wise it clicked the best with me, until it gets more maintainers and development resumes)