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320 points levkk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | 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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throwaway313373 ◴[22 Oct 24 15:07 UTC] No.41915030[source]▶
I would kinda expect REST framework to be able to generate Swagger (aka OpenAPI) definitions out of the box. That's one of the killer features of FastAPI in my opinion.

Also, I don't really understand what is the reason for creating your own ORM instead of integrating with, let's say diesel.rs [0] and what is the reason for inventing your own template language instead of just picking one of the most popular existing template engines [1].

Other than that this project looks really interesting and I will definitely keep an eye on it.

[0] https://diesel.rs/

[1] https://crates.io/categories/template-engine

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1. steveklabnik ◴[22 Oct 24 17:18 UTC] No.41916443[source]▶
100% agree that generating OpenAI from your server is a killer feature, it works well for us with Dropshot.