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Is it worth it using Rust+Axum for backend instead of Node.js? In which situations would you do so? (lemmy.opensupply.space)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In practical perspectives, I'm mostly concerned about computer resources usage; I have computer resources constraints. So using Rust would benefit on that. But it is for a Web application backend. So, is it worth it having to learn Rust + Tokio + Axum, ... in this specific situation? Also, that this is mostly for initially prototyping an application. Also considering if I add developers in the future, they would most likely not be familiar with Rust, but with more popular frameworks such as Node.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, what kind of resource constraints are we talking about? If it's low-powered hardware that can't run Node.js, then it's obviously going to be worth it...