--- title: Why you should use Rust on the backend | daily.dev description: Rust is becoming an increasingly popular choice for backend web development due to its low memory footprint, efficient concurrency handling, and strong memory... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-use-rust-on-the-backend-ormnguvqp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why you should use Rust on the backend | daily.dev og:description: Rust is becoming an increasingly popular choice for backend web development due to its low memory footprint, efficient concurrency handling, and strong memory... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-use-rust-on-the-backend-ormnguvqp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OrMNgUVQp.png og:image:alt: Why you should use Rust on the backend og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why you should use Rust on the backend **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 9 min read · 162 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Rust is becoming an increasingly popular choice for backend web development due to its low memory footprint, efficient concurrency handling, and strong memory safety guarantees. The article provides an example of a Rust web service using Axum and discusses how Rust optimizes for both performance and safety. Major companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are adopting Rust, and its advantages are particularly significant for reducing costs and enhancing security. Additionally, DARPA is transitioning its C codebase to Rust, highlighting the language's growing impact. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@shipweck** · 6 upvotes > So happy the "Rewrite it in Rust" movement is growing ever bigger! **@endallframeworks** · 2 upvotes > Do I need to state the obvious that I am not DARPA or any of these big orgs **@pretro** · 1 upvotes > all of your points are valid and all, but there is 1 crucial detail you kind of forgot about, before reading this I saw 10 different "X rewritten in rust" and "why you should use rust" posts. > > you are talking to a bunch of rust fans and telling them to use rust. **@jakofys** · 0 upvotes > You can see here that you have said is no really true on all case. > Rust must be use for a real reason, to answer a real need. > See test performance between some language [here](https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/go-vs-rust) --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust) 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