🐙 Tako – Yet another Async Web Framework in Rust (Early Phase

I needed a new challenge, so I built Tako — a lightweight, async web framework in Rust.

The idea came from wanting something routing-focused and ergonomic, without too much magic. Axum was a big inspiration, but I wanted to go a different way — keep things explicit, composable, and easy to reason about.

Right now, it supports:

basic routing with route / route_with_tsr
extractors for headers, path/query/body
middleware (sync + async)
SSE + Stream responses
shared state

It’s still early and not on crates.io yet, but the core works, and you can try it out here:
🔗 https://github.com/rust-dd/tako

I'd love to hear your thoughts:

What would you expect from a minimal async web framework in Rust?
What features feel essential? What could be left out?
Where do you feel other frameworks overcomplicate things?

Thanks in advance for any feedback, ideas, or just a quick glance. My goal is to make Tako a useful, open-source crate for people eventually

🐙 Tako – Yet another Async Web Framework in Rust (Early Phase – Feedback Welcome)