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319 points levkk | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | 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/

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the__alchemist ◴[22 Oct 24 15:08 UTC] No.41915053[source]▶
Love it; this is a big gap in Rust's ecosystem IMO.
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culi ◴[22 Oct 24 15:26 UTC] No.41915226[source]▶
Is it? Asking as someone not very tuned into the ecosystem. Based on TechEmpower's Web Framework Benchmarks[0] and AreWeWebYet's resounding "yes!" for years now[1] I always got the impression that there were quite a few options available.

Rocket, Actix, Axum, Salvo, etc just to name a few. Each with different focuses (e.g. performance vs "batteries-included-ness")

[0] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=composite...

[1] https://www.arewewebyet.org/

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1. dehrmann ◴[22 Oct 24 16:50 UTC] No.41916184[source]▶
I would have argued Rust isn't the right choice for a web framework unless the team is rust-first because the memory guarantees aren't really needed, and you're better off with occasional GC pauses and faster development velocity.
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2. ku1ik ◴[22 Oct 24 19:39 UTC] No.41917908[source]▶
That’s my take as well. To each their own, but for me there are other, GC-ed, languages that are performant enough and way more productive (and I love Rust!)
3. the__alchemist ◴[22 Oct 24 19:51 UTC] No.41918014[source]▶
This is perhaps a bit off topic, but I don't think rust is a one-trick-pony IRT memory safety. I hear this a lot, mainly from Rust programmers. [surprisingly]