[noodletheworld]

Lots of “Rails but for X” projects exist in various states, for various languages, but have failed to gain traction and stand abandoned.

…like, a lot.

I thiiiink, fundamentally, it’s a harder-than-it-looks problem space and if you come out with something that’s rough and broken, it never gains enough critical mass for it to become self sustaining.

What’s the “pitch”? It’s can’t be “Django but for rust but it’s kind of not ready yet”, bluntly.

So it needs to have some outstanding feature or accumulation of features that let it stand out from the other 30 rust web frameworks. Is there something here?

You really need to call out the “why another rust web framework” in more than just terms of ambition, imo.

[m4tx]

Yeah, that's something I'm painfully aware of. Part of the reason I'm starting to push hard even though it's not ready yet is to gain as much feedback as early as possible to avoid expensive mistakes in the long run. Is that a mistake – I don't know, we'll see.

The main selling point for now is the admin panel and the custom ORM that handles automatic migration generation. There are a lot of finer differences as well, and I'll add a comparison table soon since that's something I'm (expectedly) getting asked about quite frequently.