Actix Web vs Axum

Actix Web is an open-source web framework for Rust that emphasizes type safety, performance, and extensibility. It supports HTTP/2, WebSockets, and provides features like request routing, middleware, and JSON handling out of the box. The framework uses an asynchronous runtime and is consistently ranked among the fastest web frameworks in independent benchmarks.

Axum is an ergonomic web application framework for Rust built on top of Tokio, Hyper, and Tower. It focuses on modularity and type safety, using Rust's type system to ensure correctness of request handling at compile time.