> it's still a useful look at how Nim's leading web framework compares to Rust's leading web framework.

I'm not sure Rocket is Rust's leading framework. It certainly looks nicer than some, but still requires Rusts's nightly build, IIRC. I'm sure that means a lot of people opt for something like actix-web, or just fall back on hyper. My impression is that Rust's users are pretty widely spread across the frameworks that exist, so it may not be that you picked the wrong framework, but that isn't really a "leading" framework yet.

Someone might jump in with better info on the usage rates than me and correct me though, since this is mostly observational on my part. :)

I'd say that would be splitting hairs. But arewewebyet has downloads badges for the frameworks. If we go by those numbers, Iron has significant lead and Rocket coming second.

http://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/

Also just for fun I did try out Iron, Actix-web, and Gotham, and they all put out pretty similar figures (iron&gotham bit smaller, actix-web bit bigger). I do feel like Rocket is being a good representative example here.

That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if Rocket would be bit more feature-packed than Jester.

Fair enough. I just know that the main complaint I see against Rocket here is that it requires nightly (and supposedly enough nightly features that it may be a while before it doesn't). As something that requires a developmental build of the compiler, it didn't seem like the best representative sample to me, but if it's about par with other frameworks, then it works well enough.

Thanks for the leg work. :)