For the last eight months, we’ve been hard at work on a project that we’re thrilled to be able to share with the wider Rust community.

We know it as Gotham and today we’re releasing 0.1.

Gotham is a flexible web framework that does not sacrifice safety, security or speed. The Gotham core team loves many of the elegant concepts that are found in dynamically typed web application frameworks, such as Rails/Phoenix/Django and aspire to achieve them with the type and memory safety guarantees provided by Rust.

Gotham is stability focused. With our release of Gotham 0.1, we’re compatible with Rust stable and every future release of Gotham will maintain that contract. Naturally, we build on beta and nightly as well so if you’re on the bleeding edge Gotham is good to go.

Gotham leverages async extensively thanks to the Tokio project and is further enhanced by being built directly on top of async Hyper. Completing web requests in µs with almost non-existent memory footprints is still taking some getting used to.

We wanted to get Gotham in the hands of the Rust community early with regular smaller iterations to follow. The Gotham 0.1 release includes the following features:

  • Handlers and Controllers
  • Advanced Routing
  • Type Safe Extractors
  • Middleware and Pipelines
  • Request State
  • Sessions
  • Request and Response helpers
  • Test helpers
  • Thoroughly documented code and the beginnings of a Gotham book

There are some important features still to be built and we hope that the community will help us define even more. Right now our roadmap includes:

  • Enhancing our Router API with builders/macros to make this much more comfortable for folks used to defining routes in Rails or Phoenix
  • Compiled Templates
  • Form extraction
  • First class Diesel integration
  • Async static file serving
  • i18n
  • Hot reload during development
  • Structured logging

You can find out more about Gotham at https://gotham.rs. We look forward to welcoming you into the Gotham community.

Finally, we’d like to say a very sincere thank you to the developers and communities of every dependency we’ve built Gotham on top of, including of course, Rust itself. Your work is amazing and we could not have gotten here without it. We look forward to working with you all in the future.

Bradley and Shaun