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319 points levkk | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. jamiedumont ◴[22 Oct 24 18:40 UTC] No.41917323[source]▶
I've been evaluating and building out small prototypes with all the usual suspects for backend Rust work. So far I've reluctantly agreed with the hive mind that Axum on balance is the best choice, despite being lower-level than I'd like.

Other contenders were Loco (but was TOO much like Rails) and Rocket (whose macros only started to bother me after writing more Rust).

Your framework seems to perfectly match my criteria of "batteries-included, but not too prescriptive". Great addition to the ecosystem!

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2. factormeta ◴[22 Oct 24 20:24 UTC] No.41918332[source]▶
What about Actix? There were some discussion on HN a while back related to Actix vs Axum if I recall that.
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3. j-krieger ◴[22 Oct 24 22:00 UTC] No.41919163[source]▶
I would love it if you could link that