Is it the time to consider Actix (or any other rust web framework) for production?
I'm planning for a rather ambitious project, but not sure if I should choose rust (the new shiny thing) or stick to good ol Go (while I do have some issues with it)
We looked into Rust at our company (top 100) and it's clear it's not ready for production systems. It just puts developers into a huge tar pit fighting with the compiler for anything more than a simple hello world app. If it actually lived up to it's hype it would have been used to rewrite browsers, servers, OSes etc. But C/C++ are still the kings of system programming.
Firecracker, the software AWS Lambda runs on, is written in Rust: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Mozilla wrote Servo, a browser engine, in Rust. Part of it has been integrated into Firefox a while ago:
> Mozilla incorporated the Servo CSS Style engine in release 57 of its Firefox Quantum browser.
https://research.mozilla.org/servo-engines/
It’ll be used in Android: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-android-plat...
It’ll probably find it’s way into the Linux kernel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29485465