toast VS Iron

Compare toast vs Iron and see what are their differences.

toast

Containerize your development and continuous integration environments. 🥂 (by stepchowfun)

Iron

An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust (by iron)
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toast Iron
10 8
1,543 6,122
- 0.0%
7.6 0.0
24 days ago over 1 year ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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toast

Posts with mentions or reviews of toast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-16.
  • Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jul 2023
    This looks a lot like Toast [1], except that Toast runs your tasks in a (more) reproducible containerized environment to help eliminate the "works on my machine" problem.

    [1] https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast

  • Non-Obvious Docker Uses
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2022
  • Ask HN: What developer tools would you like to see?
    33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2022
    - A build system like Nix [1] but with a better user experience / more straightforward command-line tooling.

    - A dependently typed programming language like Coq [2] (or Agda, Idris, Lean, etc.) that is sufficiently approachable to gain enough mindshare that companies start adopting it for mission-critical work.

    - A version control system which scales to petabytes or more. Something that I could put large video files in without thinking twice about it. Something a large company could use for their monorepo—or even their data warehouse.

    - A note-taking tool that allows me to organize notes in a graph with links between them (like a wiki), not as files and folders in a tree, which enforces the invariant that every note is transitively reachable from some "root" so I never lose a note.

    - Something like Toast [3] but which is also designed for running services in production, not just local development and continuous integration. A unified way to run code in dev, test, and prod environments. A new k8s.

    [1] https://nixos.org/

    [2] https://coq.inria.fr/

    [3] https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast (shameless plug)

  • One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2022
    I realize you are probably very busy, so feel free to say no...but could you glance at this Github listing and tell me if it is what I'm looking for...it seems correct, but I may be misunderstanding...

    https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast

    Thanks so much in advance...

  • Toast: Containerize your development and CI environments
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Oct 2021
  • GitHub Actions by Example
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2022
    If you're looking for an alternative way to reproduce your CI locally that isn't tied to a particular CI system (but which has a nice integration with GitHub Actions), there's also Toast: https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast
  • Toast: A high-level containerized build system
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2022
  • Dockerizing a Programming Language
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    OP is using Docker + Make in a similar way to how I was a few years ago, before I started using Toast (https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast). Toast lets you define tasks like you would with Make (without all the hairy gotchas of Makefiles), but it runs them inside Docker containers for better portability/reproducibility.
  • Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
    66 projects | /r/rust | 11 Oct 2021
    toast: containerized workflow

Iron

Posts with mentions or reviews of Iron. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-22.
  • Options for thread-per-request or thread-per-connection web servers?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023
    I've written many things using Iron and it's been fine. It's not particularly developed any more but I am not aware of any major outstanding issues.
  • Rocket v0.5-rc3 is out!
    6 projects | /r/rust | 24 Mar 2023
    I don't miss the time when we basically only had Iron
  • Which Rust web framework to choose in 2022 (with code examples)
    7 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2022
    iron
  • How do I chiose rust web framework in 2022?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 10 May 2022
    There're many web framework in rust, such as SergioBenitez/Rocket , actix/actix-web ,poem-web/poem , iron/iron . How do I chiose, anyone suggestion?
  • Noob Help
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jan 2022
    I'm not sure which definition of backend you are thinking of here. In case you simply mean "server side", here are a couple of libraries that might be of use: iron - been a while since I used it, used it for a couple smaller projects rocket (nightly only) - no personal experience, but a lot of people seem to like it diesel - a bit complex to wrap your head around, but once you get the idea it's really nice. Definitely check out the examples.
  • Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition?
    66 projects | /r/rust | 11 Oct 2021
    it's taken by a web framework https://github.com/iron/iron
  • Building a shared vision for Async Rust
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2021
    Your comment touches on a few misconceptions I see a lot.

    Firstly, `reqwest` exposes both an async and a synchronous API, allowing the developer to choose which one to use. They are largely interchangeable code-wise. [1]

    Secondarily, and more broadly, async is possible to opt out of. You must understand that most web and network related libraries will be async by default for performance, because people who write in Rust and people who write web servers typically care greatly about performance. This is the intersection of those two groups. That being said, there are options outside of that ecosystem. [2]

    If you truly want to use an asynchronous library without migrating your application to run entirely on an async runtime like tokio, you can run it inside of a synchronous function without much trouble. I've put together a playground link for you. [3]

    1. https://docs.rs/reqwest/0.11.2/reqwest/blocking/index.html

    2. Iron: https://github.com/iron/iron

  • Porting a serverless chatbot from Python to Rust
    11 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021
    There are several web frameworks for Rust: Rocket, Actix, Warp, Iron - but only Actix has released a stable 1.0 release, and there has been considerable controversy over how it uses unsafe Rust.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing toast and Iron you can also consider the following projects:

setup-msys2 - GitHub Action to setup MSYS2

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

modus - A language for building Docker/OCI container images

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

Plume - Federated blogging application, thanks to ActivityPub (now on https://git.joinplu.me/ — this is just a mirror)

Gotham - A flexible web framework that promotes stability, safety, security and speed.

gutenberg - A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org

Sapper - A lightweight web framework built on hyper, implemented in Rust language.

pest - The Elegant Parser

The FastCGI Rust implementation. - Native Rust library for FastCGI

volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. âš¡

frank_jwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Rust.