loco VS prodzilla

Well, no, that's not really a fair assessment. Someone is quite literally doing "rails but for Rust" with loco: https://loco.rs

As far as I know, the bulk of this effort has been one developer pushing it along. I wouldn't personally use it but it _does_ exist.

It's also worth noting that these older frameworks all come from a different era of development - nowadays most newer devs seem to want to build microservice-after-microservice, where these don't quite fit into the picture.

Moreover, I especially like where Rust is right now in the web space. It really feels like there’s a lot of smart people working on the next generation of web development tools - it feels like the place to be. There are a range of great open-source web dev tools that are just reaching critical levels of maturity. Axum, which I used to build Prodzilla, feels ready for out of the box web dev, and is crazy-performant, as I write about later. More recently available is Loco, a Rails-like framework for building web applications in Rust that's picking up steam. And in dev-tooling and hosting there’s Shuttle, a 1-line hosting solution for Rust backends.

Interested in more? Check out the full tour of Loco here. Check out their discussions here.

Try https://loco.rs/ or maybe tell us what to add?

I’ve been working on Prodzilla, a modern synthetic monitoring tool built in Rust. I wanted to share how it's different to existing tools, why I’ve built it in Rust and how you can host it for free on Shuttle, and what I hope to achieve in the long-term.