markup.rs VS sea-orm

(Sailfish is fastest, but it's syntax is of the more traditional <%= msg %> flavour and Markup.rs is second-fastest with a Maud-like syntax but the author apparently doesn't have time to rewrite the syntax reference, so you have to follow a link from the open issue to an old version of the README.)

Maud or markup.rs for templating (I use the latter, and it is faster, but they're both fast and markup.rs is currently missing its full syntax documentation unless you dig through the revision history for the stale version. I'd recommend the former for you.)

For the sake of thoroughness, I should point out that Haml-like templating engines like Maud and markup.rs are even more concise.

https://maud.lambda.xyz/ or https://github.com/utkarshkukreti/markup.rs for server-side HTML templates that compile to Rust code

(eg. In Python, Genshi templates are too slow for me to feel comfortable using them, but they were the main way to get robust correctness checks for templates last time I evaluated my options. In Rust, Markup.rs or Maud are the second and third fastest templating solutions, as I remember, and they give even more well-formedness guarantees for HTML than Genshi.)

There are various templating solutions that use syntax derived from the host language, like Maud or markup.rs for Rust, the E factory API for lxml for Python, etc.

You can have similar features to Phoenix Live View by using Turbo from Hotwire with your favorite template engine in Rust. Contrary to what the video presentation on the Hotwire main page leaves you to believe, Hotwire works with any template engine from any language, not just Rails. Markup.rs and Turbo from Hotwire should compose quite nicely.

SQL with SeaORM:

Haven't used it myself, but https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm seems to be popular in some communities and async

sea-orm

SeaORM has an Actix example in their GitHub. https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm/tree/master/examples/actix_example

SeaORM or the underlying SQLx query builder for SQL handling.

SeaORM is the most advanced ORM currently available, but a lot of people prefer to just skip ORMing and go direct to the underlying SQLx query builder.

If you want to do backend development, give actix-web or Axum a try. If you need templating, take a look at Maud and if you want an ORM, take a look at SeaORM.

SeaORM is the most advanced option right now (though a lot of people prefer to go direct to the underlying SQLx library) but it doesn't yet match Django ORM for offering auto-generation of draft database migrations, which is one of the things I'm unwilling to regress on. (i.e. so all I need to hand-edit is stuff like "that's a rename, not a remove+add" and so on)

Last I checked, authentication was weak. SeaORM is probably the most mature option if you're looking for an ORM like you'd find in another ecosystem (if you're willing to explore alternative designs, try using the underlying SQLx directly).

What I really like about it (apart from being a really nicely designed language, that is very expressive, powerful, performant and one of the safest because of the strict typing/memory management), is that you can kind of focus on just programming, without all the hassles around setting up a project, thinking about building/deploying etc. as tooling is really awesome as well (rust-analyzer, cargo, crates.io etc.). Libraries are usually high-quality and innovative (which is IMHO not so true for a lot of different other languages, including the ones you mentioned). E.g. if you want to create a web-server/API you could try something like this (my current recommendation): https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum and https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx for good integration of typed sql in Rust or if you want something higher level: https://github.com/SeaQL/sea-orm