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Inside a Rust-Powered HTTP Server Built From Zero

Priyanshu Verma on May 30, 2025

I've always been curious about Rust. The buzz around its memory safety, zero-cost abstractions, and fearsome compiler made me both intrigued and in...
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K Om Senapati •

Ayo

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Priyanshu Verma •

❤️

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Oscar •

Not using serde is absolutely insane! Props to you!

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Priyanshu Verma •

😅

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Chirag Aggarwal •

such a long one 👀
will really need to take out time to go through it all

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Priyanshu Verma •

Sure, this could take some time — and there's a bit of sarcasm in there too.

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Dotallio •

This hits home - parsing HTTP by hand in Rust is a whole emotional journey. After all that, do you think you’d actually use frameworks next time, or did the pain make you stubborn?

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Priyanshu Verma •

Haha yeah, it really was an emotional rollercoaster — from “this is kinda fun” to “why am I doing this to myself” and back.
Frameworks make sense now more than ever… but I’ve definitely caught the bug for doing things the hard way once in a while. It’s oddly addictive.

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Nathan Tarbert •

Pretty insane amount of grit here, honestly love seeing someone go all in and not take shortcuts just to say they did it.

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Priyanshu Verma •

Thanks,
Just tried to serve how we as developers try to learn in a story-like format.

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