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
56 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Iron.
Iron Integrations
Iron Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Iron?
Magneto
Magneto was built by Automation Engineers for Automation Engineers out of necessity for a mobile centric test automation framework that's easy to setup, run and utilize.
Graphite
Graphite does two things: 1) Store numeric time-series data and 2) Render graphs of this data on demand
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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