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Web DevelopmentThe Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development
This is a guest post by Mateusz Maćkowski and Marek Grzelak, co-maintainers of cot.rs and speakers at Rustikon 2026. You can watch their full talk here.
In the very beginning, all we wanted to do was build a JSON API. After doing that a few times in Rust, we noticed a recurring pattern. Every new project meant choosing libraries, wiring everything together, writing the same glue code, and solving the same setup problems again.
