That's not really what I mean... I mean that throwing together an API, even one with a bit of business logic, is still nontrivially easier in Flask than it is i

That's not really what I mean... I mean that throwing together an API, even one with a bit of business logic, is still nontrivially easier in Flask than it is in Rocket (despite Rocket being the gold-standard for this in the Rust world). If we really want the Rust ecosystem to compete with, say, Go when it comes to regular web APIs, I think we're going to need more than just a framework. An embedded scripting language could be the ticket