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319 points levkk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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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stackskipton ◴[22 Oct 24 15:38 UTC] No.41915387[source]▶
As SRE, I got interested in https://levkk.github.io/rwf/migrating-from-python/. On one hand, this is crazy neat you were able to pull it off. On the stability SRE hand, I'm internally screaming. At scale, this should be handled by Reverse Proxy (Caddy, Nginx, Traefik, whatever)
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levkk ◴[22 Oct 24 15:46 UTC] No.41915492[source]▶
I thought the same thing, but this allows you to test your changes locally as an application engineer, without the back and forth. This goes back to the good old monolith vs. microservices debate.

Writing a stable WSGI server is possible, and not very hard with a bit of attention to detail, e.g. thread counts, vacuum (just like good old php-fpm, restart every n requests...), etc. Basically if you implement most options uwsgi has, you're on the right path. It's on the roadmap to make Rwf comparable to running Gunicorn.

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1. stackskipton ◴[22 Oct 24 16:57 UTC] No.41916251[source]▶
Sure, but Gunicorn doesn't try and run Node. I totally get benefit for development; I was just worried about someone YOLOing this into production.