Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust

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Two months ago, we (Julien and I) announced Topcoat, a batteries-included full-stack Rust framework. It includes views, components, mailers, an ORM (Toasty), and more. Topcoat aims to make building web apps with Rust as productive as any other language. We have been hard at work shipping features, so it is a good time to talk about what is new.

I started my career as a professional software developer building web applications with Ruby on Rails. At the time, the “build a blog in 15 minutes” video was groundbreaking. Back then, building software was tedious: writing boilerplate instead of shipping features. Ruby on Rails challenged that and proved you could be productive and that building software could also be fun. I fell in love with Ruby on Rails...