move to a Rust framework

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move to a Rust framework

Opened this issue 5 years ago · 5 comments

Moving the website to be based on Rust will create opportunities for collaboration in the language and offer a learning opportunity for many. Even the frontend should have support for webassembly

Answer 1 · 2019-11-23T05:11:14.000Z

We can write the posts in simple markdown files and convert to HTML using a markdown to html converter

Answer 2 · 2019-11-23T05:12:32.000Z

I will kickstart the project using Rocket.rs as it is simple to pick up and we don't need async functionality at the moment

Answer 3 · 2019-11-23T05:19:37.000Z

We should use a simple database or key/value store since this is not a huge website. I propose we use a rust crate called sled

Answer 4 · 2019-11-23T05:21:05.000Z

We can also create a repo for the posts so that they undergo peer review here on github before we can pull them to the website

Answer 5 · 2019-11-23T05:46:29.000Z

I really want to be part of this project. It will help me as I learn the language