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> So I decided to roll my own, using a Rust library and Cloudflare workers.

What is Cloudflare workers Rust support is like? I'd be a a complete Rust noob and looking for a dev environment with some code completion. Is that feasible today? Could you share your dev environment?

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The documentation from Cloudflare isn't too great, but you can look at the badgers-worker code for inspiration. I personally use VS Code, with the rust-analyzer extension. I use Rust a lot, and I'm very satisfied with the code completion quality that rust-analyzer provides. Cloudflare's wrangler tool provides easy local debugging for workers, but its live-reload doesn't work too well, so you have to frequently restart.

Adding to that, Rust really isn't such a fringe language anymore. It's used in production all over the world, at huge companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, etc. and it powers like 75% of the large crypto companies. The dev tools are high-quality, and there are lots of learning resources available. The language itself is mature too, and very stable.

This is really encouraging! I'm keen to experiment with Cloudflare and Rust. Thank you for sharing.