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Aug 9, 2018

I really dislike the trend that several Rust web frameworks are following of using annotations on functions to define routes. Being able to quickly see which routes are available on an application in one place is extremely useful, as is using a function for multiple routes

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@sgrif

Big fan of Haskell's Servant library's way of dealing with this, where the API is a type. Wish we had some alternative in Rust land for this: haskell-servant.readthedocs.io/en/stable/inde

10:44 PM · Aug 9, 2018Twitter Web Client

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I hope Rust gets a Yesod-like before it gets something along the lines of Servant tbh. Servant is cool, and I like it a lot, but the difficulty curve is ROUGH and I still get tripped up regularly. Type safe routes would be awesome either way though.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Aug 9, 2018

Interesting, what are the common paper cuts for you with Servant?

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