Why are people using rust to build web apps

Why wouldn't we? It's a fantastic language with great tooling, top tier performance and minimal footprint

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Some Rust proponents, but certainly it's obvious not all of them, or not even a meaningful majority.

Which is to say this despicable act has absolutely no bearing on the language and its ecosystem, so bringing it up is irrelevant, and therefore those downplaying it are not necessarily in favor of the act.

I hope that logic is self-evident.

First of all, this is not a web app.

Second, what should I use if I want a small binary with no dependencies and low CPU/RAM usage?

I could’ve used Go, but once you know Rust Go’s existence almost stops making sense :)

Rust + Axum + SQLx has been a total game-changer for me in terms of productivity developing web-based Postgres apps. I like the tooling and the libraries are great.