--- title: The S-Tier Rust Web Framework and the Priest Who Created It description: Greg Johnston, an Episcopal priest and Harvard/Yale graduate, created Leptos—a Rust web framework with 19,000+ GitHub stars. He discusses his unconventional... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-s-tier-rust-web-framework-and-the-priest-who-created-it-gkcuapxmf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The S-Tier Rust Web Framework and the Priest Who Created It | daily.dev og:description: Greg Johnston, an Episcopal priest and Harvard/Yale graduate, created Leptos—a Rust web framework with 19,000+ GitHub stars. He discusses his unconventional... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-s-tier-rust-web-framework-and-the-priest-who-created-it-gkcuapxmf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gkCUaPXMf.png og:image:alt: The S-Tier Rust Web Framework and the Priest Who Created It 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. # The S-Tier Rust Web Framework and the Priest Who Created It **[Code to the Moon](https://daily.dev/sources/codetothemoon)** · 64 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Greg Johnston, an Episcopal priest and Harvard/Yale graduate, created Leptos—a Rust web framework with 19,000+ GitHub stars. He discusses his unconventional path from CIA rejection to ministry to open source, his self-taught programming journey starting at age 10, and why he built Leptos after being dissatisfied with existing Rust web frameworks. The conversation covers WebAssembly's current limitations (particularly the unfulfilled promise of direct DOM access), architectural performance differences versus language-level overhead, the view macro's design philosophy, AI tooling experiences, and comparisons with Dioxus. Johnston also reveals he's building a programming language to explore reactive inference and async improvements, though it may remain private to avoid maintenance burden. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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