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Or else you could of course just use https://rocket.rs/

I mean, honestly. What more do you need than a simple and fun library for the API to the backend? It's 2023 and the cross-platform user interface is the web, the rest has lost, and your devs and cross-platform community is on the web. Even a biased company like Microsoft don't seem to pretend anything else these days as they base their large scale (Office, Teams) apps on... YEP you guessed it, the web.

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There are several apps that just do not work on the web inside a browser. If an app is anything beyond a single page app, it effectively requires being a desktop app.

It makes no sense to me when people say desktop apps are dead and that web apps are where it's at, when web apps run in a browser which is a desktop app. It's like claiming containers won and operating systems have lost.

That looks like a backend web framework to me. Did I miss something?

I believe the point of the original comment is that if you’d really like your business logic to be written in rust, you can already do so by building a backend service with a mature rust library & access it via web.

Rocket is borderline dead so it’s weird look for OP to suggest it.

> I mean, honestly. What more do you need than a simple and fun library for the API to the backend? It's 2023 and the cross-platform user interface is the web, the rest has lost, and your devs and cross-platform community is on the web. Even a biased company like Microsoft don't seem to pretend anything else these days as they base their large scale (Office, Teams) apps on... YEP you guessed it, the web.

This makes it make less sense now. Office you can get in a browser, but it's terrible, and Teams is a local client-side app. Or am I mistaken? Could you make the Teams client with rocket.rs?

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