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320 points levkk | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.917s | source

Hi everyone,

I've been "funemployed" for a few months and with all that free time and idle hands I wrote a full web framework (think Rails, not Flask) for Rust.

It's boring old MVC, has its own ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, migrations and more. If you're keen but don't feel like rewriting your app in a different language, Rwf has a WSGI server to run Django (or Flask) inside Rust [1], letting you migrate to Rust at your own pace without disrupting your website.

I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language. Now it has yet another framework for y'all to play with.

Cheers!

[1] https://levkk.github.io/rwf/migrating-from-python/

1. notamy ◴[22 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41914746[source]▶
What an amazing name choice, certainly one way to end up at the top of search results :P

To be serious, good job!! Building a good framework is a shockingly large task, and it’s always nice to see people exploring the design space and trying for new ideas.

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2. alberth ◴[22 Oct 24 17:11 UTC] No.41916387[source]▶
> What an amazing name choice

"Row" would be another good name choice, that would also be easier to say than 'rwf'.

RustOnWeb.com is even able to buy for $10 :)

Just say'n

3. rafram ◴[22 Oct 24 22:13 UTC] No.41919276[source]▶
Rust projects tend to go for these broad, generic, self-aggrandizing names, and I honestly think it’s a huge mistake. Crates.io is just going to become a graveyard of abandoned projects squatting on legit-sounding names.