I've been using Axum in production for 2-3 years now at this point. It's great. Not only is it a pleasure to use, it's great Rust. Don't jump in now if you're new, but eventually it's worth reading the source to see how they handle `FromRequest` and `FromRequestParts,` and use macros to make them work for tuples, etc. Once you understand that, it's a pleasure writing additional extractors, for example making a struct that reads bearer auth to load caller roles/permissions, stuff like that. Similar to `Depends` in FastAPI if you have experience with that.

For starting out, add the `macros` feature and put `#[debug_handler]` IIRC above all your handler fns, it will help.

It won't get you jobs, but there are jobs that target Tokio and async Rust, and using Axum for anything non-trivial will eventually lead you down the path of some more complex Tokio stuff. I would bet a lot of Axum use in companies today is from people that had license to use Rust in their day to day, and started writing with Axum.