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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 23 2020, @05:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-my-repo-and-go-home dept.

The maintainer of the Actix web framework, written in Rust, has quit the project after complaining of a toxic web community - although over 100 Actix users have since signed a letter of support for him.

Actix Web was developed by Nikolay Kim, who is also a senior software engineer at Microsoft, though the Actix project is not an official Microsoft project. Actix Web is based on Actix, a framework for Rust based on the Actor model, also developed by Kim.

The project is open source and while it is popular, there has been some unhappiness among users about its use of "unsafe" code. In Rust, there is the concept of safe and unsafe. Safe code is protected from common bugs (and more importantly, security vulnerabilities) arising from issues like variables which point to uninitialized memory, or variables which are used after the memory allocated to them has been freed, or attempting to write data to a variable which exceeds the memory allocated. Code in Rust is safe by default, but the language also supports unsafe code, which can be useful for interoperability or to improve performance.

Actix is top of the Techempower benchmarks on some tests


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 25 2020, @01:24AM (#948287)

    Then don't use it until enough unsafe code is removed for your taste. That problem is solved, and I'm glad it is because it was such a difficult solution to find. But, as I mentioned, the designers purposefully allowed for such a transition strategy and the big names in Rust keep trying to tell people to transition to it that way.