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I don't think Iron is even supported anymore, but for one thing, last I checked, Iron was based on OS threads primarily whereas Actix has a (I believe) pluggabl

I don't think Iron is even supported anymore, but for one thing, last I checked, Iron was based on OS threads primarily whereas Actix has a (I believe) pluggable runtime, which supports async.

_bxg1 7y ago
Ah really? That's surprising, as Iron seemed to be the go-to for what it does. I guess that's just a symptom of a nascent ecosystem.
- GrayShade 7y ago
  Iron has a rather baroque API and was pretty much unmaintained for a very long time.
  - EugeneOZ 7y ago
    and it still serve my servers pretty well, few years already.
shepmaster 7y ago
Iron had a long quiet period, but it does have updates recently (a commit 12 days ago, for example).
- staticassertion 7y ago
  Oh neat, I wasn't aware. Thank you.