# Actix Web

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Actix Web and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Well-designed Rust web framework people enjoy using for web services. Critics point to heavy use of unsafe code and past vulnerabilities.

## Why people recommend it

- Well-designed, enjoyable framework (3 comments): "libs like tokio and actix-web were so well-designed that I actually enjoyed reading the code in my free time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130579)) "I've had a great time using Rust with Actix as the framework." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361813)) "Axum and Actix are phenomenal web frameworks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645352))
- Recommended for web services (2 comments): "If you haven't tried writing a simple web service in Axum or Actix plus SQLx, you need to give it a try." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603178)) "Axum and Actix are phenomenal web frameworks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645352))

## What people warn about

- Heavy unsafe code, past vulnerabilities (2 comments): "the early rust web framework, that used a lot of "unsafe" "inappropriately" and had some vulnerabilities" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942447)) "Actix was unsound because of prolific use of unsafe." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070425))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Actix Web", https://hackerapproved.com/p/actix/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).