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That actix you see appearing in most lists and mostly nearly top is written in Rust btw.

Fun fact- frameworks managed by microsoft dominate the space ;)

IIRC actix was gettin some flack for using very unsafe code to hit those benchmarks. Still cool.

There is absolutely no shame in using unsafe!

The issue was that the author uses unsafe code unsafely and often for questionable performance or ergonomics gains that didn't actually need unsafe anyway. Fortunately, he cleaned up pretty much all of it, as I understand it, with the help of some involved community members when people freaked out about it all.

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