poem VS min-sized-rust

Compare poem vs min-sized-rust and see what are their differences.

poem

A full-featured and easy-to-use web framework with the Rust programming language. (by poem-web)

min-sized-rust

🦀 How to minimize Rust binary size 📦 (by johnthagen)
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poem min-sized-rust
30 101
3,200 7,410
3.8% -
8.8 6.2
4 days ago about 1 month ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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poem

Posts with mentions or reviews of poem. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    TypeSpec is great, but if you're working with Rust and you're about to write a new project that will require an OpenApi spec sooner or later, I'd like to recommend a web framework that has spec generation baked in:

    https://github.com/poem-web/poem (see poem_openapi)

    All you need to do is derive a trait on your response structs and in return you get an almost perfectly generated spec. Unions, objects, enums are first class citizens.

    Also, if you're from coming from PHP, the controllers feel very much like symfony controllers.

    P.s. Please do recommend an ORM that would feel closer to doctrine. I miss doctrine.

  • What is the best API generator for Axum?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 9 Apr 2023
    I've used FastAPI/Pydantic before as well and it was a very good experience. It has been a while since I used them though, so I forget exactly how they compare, but I do recall it wrote most of the OpenAPI spec. for you. I will also agree when I saw utoipa and aide they seemed to require more boilerplate even though I have not done an actual comparison. Poem, on the other hand, seems very neat and clean and doesn't have any duplication that I can see. Here is the [TODO example](https://github.com/poem-web/poem/blob/master/examples/openapi/todos/src/main.rs).
  • Looking for a Rust API with automatic documentation and good validation?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 5 Mar 2023
    The example at https://github.com/poem-web/poem/tree/master/examples/openapi/auth-apikey works without issues for me.
  • What library to use for a Websocket Server?
    1 project | /r/rust | 23 Feb 2023
    'Poem', it turns to nicer to play with for me than 'Axum'. Example of web socket chat https://github.com/poem-web/poem/blob/master/examples/poem/websocket-chat/src/main.rs
  • Rest API framework in rust
    2 projects | /r/rust | 5 Feb 2023
    If you need built-in OpenAPI support, I can recommend Poem.
  • (Recommendation Request) Rust REST API framework; similar to Python's FastAPI(Python)
    3 projects | /r/rust | 21 Jan 2023
    If OpenAPI is important, then you may to consider https://github.com/poem-web/poem instead of axum. It isn't nearly as widely used, but it should still be compatible with everything else.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (3/2023)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 16 Jan 2023
    Poem: More rigid and less popular and aims to be easier https://github.com/poem-web/poem
  • A taste of pavex, an upcoming Rust web framework
    3 projects | /r/rust | 24 Dec 2022
    Did you check out Poem? It seems promising, with openapi generation built in already.
  • I switch from Golang and want to build a REST API in Rust.
    6 projects | /r/rust | 22 Dec 2022
    https://github.com/poem-web/poem is a pretty nice framework
  • Migrating from warp to axum
    2 projects | /r/rust | 23 Nov 2022
    I recently been working with warp and stumbled upon poem framework (https://github.com/poem-web/poem), any thoughts about that? Considering Axum as well but staying a bit on cautionary side until 0.6 full release.

min-sized-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of min-sized-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.
  • The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    This is a good guide on building small Rust binaries: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

    This talks about going to extreme lengths on making the smallest Rust binary possible, 400 bytes when it was written, https://darkcoding.net/software/a-very-small-rust-binary-ind...

    The thing is, you lose a lot of nice features when you do this, like panic unwinding, debug symbols, stdlib… for kernel and some embedded development it’s definitely important, but for most use cases, does it matter?

  • Rust wont save us, but its ideas will
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2024
    Oh it was 137, haha. I will link you to this older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408906

    See also https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

  • Making Rust binaries smaller by default
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    Are you sure? If so then this is awesome news, but I'm a bit confused; the commit in that min-sized-rust repo adding `build-std` to the README was merged in August 2021: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust/pull/30

    Are you saying that at that point the feature still hadn't "landed in Rust nightly" until recently? If so then what's the difference between a feature just being available in Rust nightly, vs having "landed"?

  • Was Rust Worth It?
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
    Rust binaries are by default nowhere close to 500MB. If they are not small enough for you, you can try https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust. By avoiding the formatting machinery and using `panic_immediate_abort` you can get about the size of C binaries.
  • Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    A useful reference: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
  • How to minimize Rust binary size
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2023
  • Error on flashing embedded code to stm32f103
    2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2023
  • Tiny Binaries (2021)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2023
    That must be without stripping. Also there are ways to reduce binary size. See e.g. [min-sized-rust](https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust). I've gotten stripped binaries of small cli utils less than 400KiB without doing anything special, less than 150 KiB by customizing profile settings and compressing with upx, and less than 30 KiB by replacing the std with the libc as the link shows. Haven't tried with fltk though...
  • Shared libraries
    2 projects | /r/rust | 30 May 2023
    This is not quite what you're asking, but it does also address the underlying concern: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

What are some alternatives?

When comparing poem and min-sized-rust you can also consider the following projects:

axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

smartstring - Compact inlined strings for Rust.

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

Cargo - The Rust package manager

jelly-actix-web-starter - A starter template for actix-web projects that feels very Django-esque. Avoid the boring stuff and move faster.

rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc

async-graphql - A GraphQL server library implemented in Rust

c2rust - Migrate C code to Rust

okapi - OpenAPI (AKA Swagger) document generation for Rust projects

regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

embedded-graphics - A no_std graphics library for embedded applications