Two months ago, we ( Julien and I ) announced Topcoat , a batteries-included full-stack Rust framework. It includes views, components, mailers, an ORM ( Toasty ), and more. Topcoat aims to make building web apps with Rust as productive as any other language. We have been hard at work shipping features, so it is a good time to talk about what is new.

I started my career as a professional software developer building web applications with Ruby on Rails. At the time, the “build a blog in 15 minutes” video was groundbreaking. Back then, building software was tedious: writing boilerplate instead of shipping features. Ruby on Rails challenged that and proved you could be productive and that building software could also be fun. I fell in love with Ruby on Rails, worked on the core team for a few years, and am still a top 50 all-time contributor to Ruby on Rails.…