The web ecosystem in Rust is still very early. There have been some awesome efforts recently in pushing a full-featured http library [0] (Hyper is now powering

The web ecosystem in Rust is still very early. There have been some awesome efforts recently in pushing a full-featured http library [0] (Hyper is now powering Servo [1]). The web ecosystem can't expand fully without a strong http library and previously, an unmaintained rust-http was used. The next issue, if we're talking about high-performance http is asynchronous I/O which Rust doesn't currently bundle with (now that Rust has dismantled it's green threading runtime and is now sticking with native threading). However, mio [2], a lower-level Rust library in providing proper I/O abstractions that support async apis and the like is progressing pretty well. The awesome part about Rust is that you have full control over the system. This allows one to build something like mio even though Rust doesn't support async I/O or a more efficient threading model, etc... [0]: https://github.com/hyperium/hyper https://github.com/hyperium/hyper [1]: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4198 https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/4198 [2]: https://github.com/carllerche/mio https://github.com/carllerche/mio