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 # Actix web [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/actix/actix-web.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/actix/actix-web) [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/kkdb4yce7qhm5w85/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/fafhrd91/actix-web-hdy9d/branch/master) [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/actix/actix-web/branch/master/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/actix/actix-web) [![crates.io](http://meritbadge.herokuapp.com/actix-web)](https://crates.io/crates/actix-web) [![Join the chat at https://gitter.im/actix/actix](https://badges.gitter.im/actix/actix.svg)](https://gitter.im/actix/actix?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
 
-Actix web is a small, fast, pragmatic, open source rust web framework.
+Actix web is a small, pragmatic, extremely fast, web framework for Rust.
 
 * Supported *HTTP/1.x* and [*HTTP/2.0*](https://actix.github.io/actix-web/guide/qs_13.html) protocols
 * Streaming and pipelining
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
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-//! Actix web is a small, fast, pragmatic, open source rust web framework.
+//! Actix web is a small, pragmatic, extremely fast, web framework for Rust.
 //!
 //! ```rust
 //! use actix_web::*;