# Announcing Axum - an easy to use, powerful, web framework for Tokio (Tokio is an asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language)

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**Category:** Backend Official News\
**Tags:** axum, tokio, rust\
**Created:** [6 August 2021 04:32 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/announcing-axum-an-easy-to-use-powerful-web-framework-for-tokio-tokio-is-an-asynchronous-runtime-for-the-rust-programming-language/16228 "2021-08-06T04:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![dimitarvp](https://forum.devtalk.com/user_avatar/forum.devtalk.com/dimitarvp/32/5599_2.png) [@dimitarvp](https://forum.devtalk.com/u/dimitarvp)\
**Post date:** [7 August 2021 14:49 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/announcing-axum-an-easy-to-use-powerful-web-framework-for-tokio-tokio-is-an-asynchronous-runtime-for-the-rust-programming-language/16228/6 "2021-08-07T14:49:48Z")

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Yeah, agree, IMO Rust community should converge on Rocket and ActixWeb and just stop there.

The next natural step would be properly invest in an actor (OTP-like) framework of which, too, there are too many nowadays. :003:

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