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Rust High Performance

You're reading from   Rust High Performance Learn to skyrocket the performance of your Rust applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399487
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Iban Eguia Moraza Iban Eguia Moraza
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Using Rust for web development


You might think that Rust is only meant to be used for complex system development, or that it should be used where security is the number one concern. Thinking of using it for web development might sound to you like huge overkill. We already have proven web-oriented languages that have worked until now, such as PHP or JavaScript, right?

This is far from true. Many projects use the web as their platform and for them, it's sometimes more important to be able to receive a lot of traffic without investing in expensive servers rather than using legacy technologies, especially in new products. This is where Rust comes in handy. Thanks to its speed and some really well thought out web-oriented frameworks, Rust performs even better than the legacy web programming languages.

Rust is even trying to replace some of the JavaScript on the client side of applications, since Rust can compile to WebAssembly, making it extremely powerful for heavy client-side web workloads. We...

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