Rust Web Development

Discussions center on the suitability, productivity, frameworks, maturity, and experiences of using Rust for building web applications, often debating it against JavaScript, Go, or other stacks.

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faitswulff Dec 23, 2018 View on HN

How do you feel about the productivity for web development in Rust?

shockzzz Jan 31, 2016 View on HN

Is it just me, or is using Rust for web apps kinda odd?

hpen Aug 11, 2020 View on HN

Why create web apps in Rust? Won't that slow down development?

What's the relevance of learning Rust for someone into web development?

camus2 Apr 23, 2014 View on HN

what about rust for webapps? are there any frameworks out there?

StellaMary Oct 27, 2025 View on HN

I just created a open source Rust based JavaScript framework that allows every JS dev to write existing express js code that runs on Rust's Tokio and hyper.

akkad33 Apr 11, 2025 View on HN

What kind of project do you plan to work on, is it a web app, if so what framework do you use for it in Rust

megous Jan 14, 2021 View on HN

They have a JS compiler written in rust in the list. :)

bsaul Dec 13, 2014 View on HN

Since you know a lot about web frameworks : do you see rust becoming a good language for building a modern web framework anytime soon ?

gpderetta May 6, 2025 View on HN

Are there rust projects that are within orders of magnitude of Chromium?