Question 1

Is Armature a good NestJS alternative for Rust?

Accepted Answer

Yes! Armature is specifically designed to bring NestJS's architectural patterns to Rust. It features dependency injection, decorators (via Rust macros), modules, guards, interceptors, and pipes - all concepts familiar to NestJS developers.

Question 2

How does Armature compare to Express or Koa?

Accepted Answer

Armature provides Express's simplicity and Koa's async/await patterns, but adds type safety, dependency injection, and compile-time error catching. The middleware system will feel familiar, but you get Rust's performance (8-15x faster) and memory safety guarantees.

Question 3

Why choose Armature over Actix-web, Rocket, or Axum?

Accepted Answer

Armature focuses on enterprise features and developer experience. While Actix-web, Rocket, and Axum are excellent low-level frameworks, Armature provides built-in authentication (JWT, OAuth2, SAML), validation, caching, job queues, and OpenAPI generation - reducing the need for external crates.

Question 4

How fast is Armature compared to Node.js?

Accepted Answer

Armature is 8-15x faster than Node.js frameworks like Express and NestJS, with ~3x less memory usage and sub-2ms p99 latency for typical API endpoints.