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Are we web yet? A simple reckoning of Rust's readiness for Web-related things.

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This is common practice, there was one for suez canal I think (is suez open or something like that - I cannot seem to be able to find that one though, am I hallucinating?), and there is one for rust being web ready: https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Is Fable 5 Back?

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Jun 16, 2026

Sure, there's "native" UI with stuff like slint(QT-like) or iced(system76 is actually building the COSMIC linux desktop environment with this). And you can also get an electron-like stack going, that is actually much less bloated than "normal" electron, by using tauri-webview, which uses the…

on Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

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Nov 20, 2024

Or any of these XD https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

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Oct 22, 2024

Is it? Asking as someone not very tuned into the ecosystem. Based on TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks[0] and AreWeWebYet's resounding "yes!" for years now[1] I always got the impression that there were quite a few options available. Rocket, Actix, Axum, Salvo, etc just to name a few. Each…

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

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Oct 22, 2024

Well done! You could try to get mentioned on https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

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Oct 22, 2024

Actix used to be the fastest (maybe still is? all the frameworks are so fast it doesn't even matter that much anymore) and most popular framework. Then a bit of drama happened about the hard life of maintaining an OSS project with users criticising you (the usual). Rocket seemed to gain popularity…

on Getting Started with Axum – Rust's Most Popular Web Framework

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Dec 6, 2023

Are We Web Yet?

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Nov 15, 2023

My favourites are: - Are we web yet http://arewewebyet.org/ - Are we game yet http://arewegameyet.com/ - Are we GUI yet http://areweguiyet.com/ All of these are on that list of course, but I want to highlight these three in particular.

on Are We <Thing> Yet?

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Apr 10, 2023

> async rust is not yet finished (or it is?) https://areweasyncyet.rs/ see also: https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Rust Is a Scalable Language

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Mar 29, 2023

https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Why use Rust on the back end?

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Mar 21, 2023

README

Are We Web Yet

This project tries to give the answer to the question, "is the Rust ecosystem ready for web development yet?" This document gives an overview on the structure of the data, the technologies used and how you can contribute to the project. If you want to see the output of the project, please go to

arewewebyet.org

Contributing

All contributions are welcome to the project. The curators try to review all pull requests as quickly as possible. However, this is a volunteer run project, so please be patient with it. If you are planning on submitting bigger changes to the project, please open a GitHub issue first and talk to the team before submitting to make sure your work will be accepted.

Topics are located in the content/topics directory. Every topic contains an array of crates in the extra section of it's frontmatter:

+++
[extra]

packages = [
  "actix-web",
  "rocket"
]
+++

To add or remove crates from a topic, simple add or remove the crate from it's package array. For more detailed documentation, see the contributing docs.

Code of Conduct

This project is managed under an adapted Contributor Convenant Code of Conduct, applicable to everyone involved in the project (including core committers, maintainers and sponsors) in all forms of online and offline communication (public and private) as well as for all affiliated events and meetings.

Read the full Code of Conduct here

License

The project and all its work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To learn more about the conditions of that License, please refer to the LICENSE document in this folder.

The original work this project is largely inspired by, was done and published by Chris Morgan under the Creative Commons Attribution License (his link suggests, version 3.0).

rust-lang/arewewebyet

Are we web yet? A simple reckoning of Rust's readiness for Web-related things.

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389 commits

updated Jul 6, 2025

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This is common practice, there was one for suez canal I think (is suez open or something like that - I cannot seem to be able to find that one though, am I hallucinating?), and there is one for rust being web ready: https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Is Fable 5 Back?

0

Jun 16, 2026

Sure, there's "native" UI with stuff like slint(QT-like) or iced(system76 is actually building the COSMIC linux desktop environment with this). And you can also get an electron-like stack going, that is actually much less bloated than "normal" electron, by using tauri-webview, which uses the…

on Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

0

Nov 20, 2024

Or any of these XD https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

0

Oct 22, 2024

Is it? Asking as someone not very tuned into the ecosystem. Based on TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks[0] and AreWeWebYet's resounding "yes!" for years now[1] I always got the impression that there were quite a few options available. Rocket, Actix, Axum, Salvo, etc just to name a few. Each…

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

0

Oct 22, 2024

Well done! You could try to get mentioned on https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Show HN: Rust Web Framework

0

Oct 22, 2024

Actix used to be the fastest (maybe still is? all the frameworks are so fast it doesn't even matter that much anymore) and most popular framework. Then a bit of drama happened about the hard life of maintaining an OSS project with users criticising you (the usual). Rocket seemed to gain popularity…

on Getting Started with Axum – Rust's Most Popular Web Framework

0

Dec 6, 2023

Are We Web Yet?

2

Nov 15, 2023

My favourites are: - Are we web yet http://arewewebyet.org/ - Are we game yet http://arewegameyet.com/ - Are we GUI yet http://areweguiyet.com/ All of these are on that list of course, but I want to highlight these three in particular.

on Are We <Thing> Yet?

0

Apr 10, 2023

> async rust is not yet finished (or it is?) https://areweasyncyet.rs/ see also: https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Rust Is a Scalable Language

0

Mar 29, 2023

https://www.arewewebyet.org/

on Why use Rust on the back end?

0

Mar 21, 2023

README

Are We Web Yet

This project tries to give the answer to the question, "is the Rust ecosystem ready for web development yet?" This document gives an overview on the structure of the data, the technologies used and how you can contribute to the project. If you want to see the output of the project, please go to

arewewebyet.org

Contributing

All contributions are welcome to the project. The curators try to review all pull requests as quickly as possible. However, this is a volunteer run project, so please be patient with it. If you are planning on submitting bigger changes to the project, please open a GitHub issue first and talk to the team before submitting to make sure your work will be accepted.

Topics are located in the content/topics directory. Every topic contains an array of crates in the extra section of it's frontmatter:

+++
[extra]

packages = [
  "actix-web",
  "rocket"
]
+++

To add or remove crates from a topic, simple add or remove the crate from it's package array. For more detailed documentation, see the contributing docs.

Code of Conduct

This project is managed under an adapted Contributor Convenant Code of Conduct, applicable to everyone involved in the project (including core committers, maintainers and sponsors) in all forms of online and offline communication (public and private) as well as for all affiliated events and meetings.

Read the full Code of Conduct here

License

The project and all its work is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To learn more about the conditions of that License, please refer to the LICENSE document in this folder.

The original work this project is largely inspired by, was done and published by Chris Morgan under the Creative Commons Attribution License (his link suggests, version 3.0).

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