I understand that using Actix really highlights the speed advantage of Rust... but I think it's irresponsible to encourage rewrites in Rust using a framework that's dead because the developer decided to quit instead of fix security issues[0]. The last thing we need is a bunch of new Rust devs rewriting their perfectly fine Node code using an insecure framework.
Rust is really fast, especially compared to Node. This is an easy benchmark to win. So why not use a framework that's actually secure.
The project seems active: https://github.com/actix/actix-web