What is Iron?
Iron is a high level web framework built in and for Rust, built on hyper. Iron is designed to take advantage of Rust's greatest features - its excellent type system and its principled approach to ownership in both single threaded and multi threaded contexts.
Iron is a tool in the Microframeworks (Backend) category of a tech stack.
Iron is an open source tool with 6.1K GitHub stars and 402 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Iron's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Iron?
Companies
15 companies reportedly use Iron in their tech stacks, including Nuxeo, arivu.one, and mifos.
Developers
47 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Iron.
Iron Integrations
Iron Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Iron?
Magneto
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Graphite
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ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
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