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.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Related Comparisons
