I mean, OP is working on such a "magical" web framework now. Time will tell how it turns out, and how usable and magical it ends up being. But at least the author isn't just whining; she's put her hands to the keyboard and is going to try to get it done.
> What you're asking for is a DSL built on top of Rust for the purpose of creating web apps.
I don't think that's necessary, personally, but if someone really wanted that, I'm sure they could come up with something that can be wrapped in a Rust macro invocation, that gets expanded to something smaller and faster (compiled-code-wise) than anything you can get in a Rails app.
> What you're asking for is a DSL built on top of Rust for the purpose of creating web apps.
I don't think that's necessary, personally, but if someone really wanted that, I'm sure they could come up with something that can be wrapped in a Rust macro invocation, that gets expanded to something smaller and faster (compiled-code-wise) than anything you can get in a Rails app.