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by pistoriusp 92 days ago
Hey everyone, Peter here. I'm one of the humans behind RedwoodSDK.

This is the second time I’ve built this framework.

The first version was a collaboration with Tom Preston-Werner. When Tom asked me to become the steward of RedwoodJS, I realized we had a massive opportunity to take what we’d started and make it bulletproof.

I brought my experience from my own startup to the table, specifically the scars , to ensure this version allowed you to iterate rapidly.

Here's the journey: https://rwsdk.com/blog/redwood-v1-getting-out-of-the-weeds
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vends 92 days ago
Congrats on the launch! While the focus is on humans, I found many of the principles here to be very relevant for building with AI.

With LLMs able to generate the "magic" with ease, I can see the role of frameworks shifting a bit. Instead of hiding complexity, it's surely more beneficial to expose the primitives clearly enough that both you and an LLM can follow the request lifecycle.

The bet on Cloudflare is pretty bold, but it does make sense given how unique their products like DO and Workers are. I suppose there's not much of an escape hatch if you ever needed one?

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pistoriusp 92 days ago
> With LLMs able to generate the "magic" with ease, I can see the role of frameworks shifting a bit. Instead of hiding complexity, it's surely more beneficial to expose the primitives clearly enough that both you and an LLM can follow the request lifecycle.

100%.

I kinda feel like we've fooled ourselves into creating these domain specific languages for frameworks, where we glue things together using magic, and just dealing with the features of the language, the browser and the network make a lot of sense in the AI world. And our framework is actually much less complicated than I think a lot of them are...

> I suppose there's not much of an escape hatch if you ever needed one?

I of course don't want to be vendor locked in, so I've started working on something called open durable objects, and I have a concept for something called open bindings.

these are the two core technical solutions that the framework really needs from Cloudflare. This does not include durability in the same way you get it from Cloudflare: it will run on a single machine.

This runs on both bun and node.

https://github.com/redwoodjs/sdk/pull/969

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