# Rust is a hard way to make a web API

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**Created:** [16 January 2021 11:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/rust-is-a-hard-way-to-make-a-web-api/6011 "2021-01-16T11:20:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 January 2021 11:20 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/rust-is-a-hard-way-to-make-a-web-api/6011/1 "2021-01-16T11:20:38Z")

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> Rust is an amazing language. It has enabled excellent CLI tools like [ripgrep](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) and [exa](https://github.com/ogham/exa). Companies like Cloudflare are using Rust for their own systems and [encouraging people to write Rust to run microservices](https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/rust/). Rust makes it possible to write really fast software that’s secure, tiny, and more concise than C++ or C.
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> If I were writing a geocoder, a routing engine, a real-time messaging platform, a database, or a CLI tool, Rust would be at the top of the list.
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> But last year, I spent some time trying to make Rust work for a plain-vanilla API to power a normal website. It wasn’t a very good fit.

> **[Rust is a hard way to make a web API](https://macwright.com/2021/01/15/rust.html)**
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> It is not just the borrow checker

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