HACKER Q&A
📣 brundolf

Anybody using the Rocket framework (Rust) in production?


Rocket is a super exciting Rust framework that lets you write a web server with Flask-like ergonomics. I've used it on a couple toy projects and it's a delight.

However it's still in v0.x, and you have to use the latest RC in order to use it with the stable (non-nightly) Rust compiler. It also seems to have a pretty small maintenance team without any company backing as far as I can tell.

So I'd like to use it at work given an opportunity, but I'm not sure if it's still too bleeding-edge. Is there anybody who's used it for something real and can speak to its reliability/general experience?

  👤 marcusbuffett Accepted Answer ✓
I’ve been a long-time user of Rocket and just dropped it recently for actix web. I needed async which is only in 0.5, but other libraries weren’t updated for 0.5. While struggling w/ something related to that, a new nightly version of rust broke Rocket. I’m also not a huge fan of its fairing system. Wanted to like it, but just hit rough edges one too many times.
👤 dnh44
> you have to use the latest RC in order to use it with the stable (non-nightly) Rust compiler.

That’s not actually true anymore since v0.5 came out in June.

I’m intending on using it for a small project that will handle real money soon but I’m not there yet so can’t answer your question.