Rust web frameworks
# The tower/hyper substrate and the frameworks over it — Axum, Actix Web, Rocket — plus the contract-fidelity table.
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Rust web frameworks — the landscape
Concept
2026-08-09
How the tower/hyper substrate shapes the field — Axum as the Tokio-native default, Actix Web's own stack, Rocket's ergonomics-first lineage, and the smaller players.
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Actix Web deep dive
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2026-08-09
The own-stack incumbent — actix-http engine, App/scope composition, extractors, its Transform middleware model, the actor heritage, and where it beats axum.
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Axum deep dive
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2026-08-09
The Tokio team's framework — extractors and IntoResponse, Router composition, State, tower/tower-http middleware for free, and the FromRequest machinery.
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Frameworks × tower/hyper — who builds on the contracts
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2026-08-09
Contract-by-contract table of how Axum, Actix Web, Rocket, warp and poem honor, wrap, or replace the tower/hyper substrate, and why contract fidelity pays.
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Rocket deep dive
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2026-08-09
The ergonomics pioneer — attribute-macro routing, request guards, fairings, typed config and forms, the async 0.5 rebirth, and its place today.