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actix-web

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

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What it is

Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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HN mentions by year81 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-11-04 23:43:55 UTC to 2024-11-21 21:05:41 UTC.

0102030402017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 4 submissions, 11 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 43 mentions; 4 submissions, 39 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 2 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15411
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC43439
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC725
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743

What Hacker News says

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snake_case·Dec 23, 2018
I got back into Rust this year via WebAssembly! It was really fun to make this little A* pathfinding demo: https://github.com/jakedeichert/wasm-astar After that little project, I got started on an api service in Crystal. Crystal was interesting to try out, but I decided to switch to Rust after a few weeks since the ecosystem/community is much larger. I first chose to use the Rocket framework [0] but switched to actix-web [1] after a few weeks so I didn't have to use nightly anymore. So far actix-web has been great, but I'll be keeping my eye on Rocket going stable hopefully sometime in 2019, and also another library called warp [2]. I've also got another wasm project in the works... hoping to finish that off soon and publish sometime next month. [0]: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket [1]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web [2]: http
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In Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
hardwaresofton·Mar 28, 2018
tldr; - it was hard for me to determine which rust web framework I should be using, since I want something light like flask. best resource was https://github.com/flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison Very recently I've taken a tour around the Rust web server ecosystem, and I think it's way too hard to find one to pick. The author mentions actix-web[0], and mentions how fast it is, but it's actually right below hyper[1], which I find to be simpler, because it doesn't bring in the whole actor frame work thing. Hyper builds on Tokio[2] which introduces the usual event loop paradigm that we're used to in other languages (which AFAIK is the fastest way to write web servers to date). There's also great talk[3] that introduces the choices that tokio makes that are somewhat unique. Here's what I want out of a web framework: - express like-interfac
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e (func(req,resp,next) pattern provies just the right amount of freedom/structure IMO) - good routing (plus: decorators/a fairly ergonomic way to specify routes) - reasonable higher-level interfaces to implement (I want to implement an interface, and be able to receive things like logging, tracing, grpc/thrift/whatever transports for free, good interfaces are what make writing reusable stuff like that possible) Here's what I found about the various frameworks that exist out there: - Rocket.rs[4]: Seems to do too much (I tend towards building APIs), rocket is closer to django/rails than it is to flask/sinatra. - Gotham.rs[5]: Seems perfect, but falls flat on the feature front, half the stuff on the landing page are features of rust, not the library. Doesn't seem to have enough batteries included, for example there's currently work being done on streaming request bodies (https://github.com/gotham-rs/gotham/issues/189), that's not a issue I want to run into. - Iron.rs[6]: The oldest of the bunch, but also very very fast (which I discovered actually browsing rocket's issues[7]), not based on hyper, and also not actively maintained. I had no idea which of these to use, or how to find ones I've missed, then I stumbled upon this amazing resource: https://github.com/flosse/rust-web-framework-comparison. However, when you look at that comparison, it's really suspicious how much of actix-web has filled out, which is often indicative of something written from one point of view (like when people have comparison pages, and one option seems to just have "everything"). And again, like I said actix seems to be doing too much, I don't really want to utilize the actor model, I just want a relatively fast, ergonomic simple library with the most basic batteries included. BTW, everyone keeps raving about type safety and I wonder why people don't give Haskell more of a go. If Rust gives you the type safety equivalent to a shield, haskell is a phalanx. I've never felt more safe and protected by my types than when I write Haskell -- it's relatively fast, memory safe, has fantastic concurrency primitives, and though it can be tough to optimize (which comes to down to optimizing for lower amounts of GCs like most other memory managed languages), it's pretty fast out of the gate. I use servant (https://haskell-servant.readthedocs.io/) and love it. [0]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web [1]: https://hyper.rs/ [2]: https://tokio.rs/ [3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QZ0-vIIFug [4]: https://rocket.rs/ [5]: https://gotham.rs/ [6]: http://ironframework.io/ [7]: https://github.com/SergioBenitez/Rocket/issues/552
In Fast, Safe, and Complete(ish) Web Service in Rust
mitchtbaum·Mar 2, 2018
> in Rust Saying what language a program uses only describes its grammar and runtime. Saying what dialect a program uses also describes its idioms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_idiom For (a simple) example, actix-web uses actix, a library that largely changes the nature of writing Rust code. This might be called Rust-a or Rust', or something. https://github.com/actix/actix-web My point is that Rust is a really cool language where "the(/some) (sub)community(ies)" are developing and coalescing around great libraries outside of core std, making a very* robust language, or rather robust language dialect.
In Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust
fafhrd91·Jan 12, 2018Submission

Announcing Actix web 0.3 – A small, fast, pragmatic, async rust web framework

https://github.com/actix/actix-web I am happy to announce actix web - 0.3 release! It is complete redesign of the actix web framework. It got a lot of new futures, like http/2 support via just release h2 create or better streaming support. A lot of performance related work has been done, actix web now as fast as raw hyper server on normal load and faster on pipelined load. New user documentation has been added and a lot of examples. It can be used with diesel and redis. Features: * Supported HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2.0 protocols * Streaming and pipelining * Keep-alive and slow requests handling * WebSockets * Transparent content compression/decompression (br, gzip, deflate) * Configurable request routing * Graceful server shutdown * Multipart streams * Middlewares (Logger, Session, DefaultHeaders, CORS)
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