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S. LyuPractical Rust Web Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6589-5_2

2. Developing Websites

Shing Lyu1  
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
There is no denying that the web is one of the most popular platforms on Earth now. There are over 1.7 billion websites on the World Wide Web. And if you look at job boards for developers, web developers take up a large proportion of it. There are already many established programming languages for building the backend: Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Node.js, and Go, just to name a few. But Rust fits perfectly into the web domain because of a few reasons:

  • Security

  • Concurrency

  • Low-level control

Web security has been a big headache for everyone involved in building websites. But many vulnerabilities are ...

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