0atman

(If you're just making a simple rest api backend, I still dig the simplicity of poem-openapi + sqlx)

I can't understand if rust on rails is a joke, badly written by gpt, or written by someone who doesn't understand both Rust and web development in general. It's full of typos and baffling design decisions. (shelling out to an external comand to generate rust code?! MACROS EXIST!)

I use html-node which has a typed submodule for even greater strictness. I just build some valid html, make a string and write that to the output directory and get on with my life. Eg: https://github.com/0atman/noboilerplate/

Templates... Rust functions

Flow control... Rust match expression

Abstraction... Rust modules

Html validation... Rust compiler

I like to think that in writing the html-node crate, Vidhan taught the compiler to speak html! https://lib.rs/crates/html-node

(If you'll forgive the self promo, I explained it better in this video https://youtu.be/pocWrUj68tU)

Rust's macro system allows you to program the compiler with each new program, and sqlx is my favourite example of this.

You've forced me to look up the talk, and the one I have the ticket for in my email is actually from 2011, my memory of the date was wrong: https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=bc7fd2

Someone took a terrible video of it (ah 2011 video) here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vazlMe7sNzM but that doesn't seem to include the Q&A section where he went off the rails.