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488 points levkk | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | 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. miffy900 ◴[22 Oct 24 23:23 UTC] No.41919804[source]▶
Honestly, including an ORM as a built-in 'feature' of a web framework seems like a quaintly reasonable idea at first, but I'm 90% certain that eventually it's going to become either (or both):

* it's own project because maintaining it will take up so much of your time.

* be decoupled from the web framework because users will want to use another because your own doesn't have abc feature.

From observing the ecosystems in .NET, Java and PHP, lots of people have lots of opinions on how ORMs should work.