From Go to Rust with an HTTP Server

One of the staples of the system developer's toolbox is building web applications. These days, we might even say it's building HTTP-based API servers.

In The Go Developer's Quickstart Guide to Rust I showed how a Go developer can get a foothold in the Rust world. This time, I'll start with a Go HTTP app and show how to implement it in Rust.

Along the way, we're going to learn quite a bit more about Rust. We'll get the basics of error handling, JSON parsing, and memory...