Is rust overkill for most back-end apps that could be done quickly by NodeJS or PHP?

1. deno

   1 520 106,975 10.0 Rust

   A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

   

   I would use Deno or Go over Nodejs or PhP. Deno is the new Node, made by the guy who made Node, but improved (more secure, better tooling, etc).

2. SaaSHub

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3. typeshare

   2 11 30 0.0 Rust

   Discontinued Generate code in different languages from Rust type definitions for FFI interop.

   

   Aren't there things like typeshare to aid with that case?

4. FrameworkBenchmarks

   3 421 8,108 9.9 C++

   Discontinued Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

   

   Their GitHub wiki explaining the benchmark problems: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/wiki/Project-Information-Framework-Tests-Overview

5. tracing-opentelemetry-instrumentation-sdk

   4 1 242 8.7 Rust

   Middlewares and tools to integrate axum + tracing + opentelemetry

   

   APM (services like Datadog) integration with Python is just a few lines and everything's monkey patched for you in runtime. You don't have that choice with Rust, have a look at this repo: it's hundreds of lines of glue code that you need to understand in case something breaks, and you still need to annotate things manually, that'll just help you to output traces to your APM.

6. inline-python

   5 6 1,249 8.3 Rust

   Inline Python code directly in your Rust code

   

   I know the OP asked about Node/PHP but for Python, there is https://github.com/fusion-engineering/inline-python which can give you both Rust and the all-the-libraries experience.

7. aerospike-client-rust

   6 1 97 9.3 Rust

   Rust client for the Aerospike database

   

8. diesel-async

   7 1 - -

   There's also diesel-async, basically a drop-in replacement but you have to use one of the built in connection pools

9. swift

   8 239 70,035 10.0 Swift

   The Swift Programming Language

   

   Amuse yourself, https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Runtime.md

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