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I'd love to see something like laravel/symfony in go/rust. If anyone is willing to give it a shot I would've switched yesterday

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I've thought about doing a Laravel-like framework in Go, but one of the superpower of PHP/Laravel _is_ the possibility to have very loose / no types, which gives a great DX when used correctly, but in Go, you'd have to interface{} so many things that the resulting code would be non idiomatic / not as performant as go can be.

And then, you'd need to have an ecosystem as strong as Laravel which... wow... would take a _lot_ of investments.

Honestly it’s pretty hard. We are talking about frameworks with decades of development. It’s not something that can be done by one developer, you need corporate levels of investments at least to bootstrap it.

Well, no, that's not really a fair assessment. Someone is quite literally doing "rails but for Rust" with loco: https://loco.rs

As far as I know, the bulk of this effort has been one developer pushing it along. I wouldn't personally use it but it _does_ exist.

It's also worth noting that these older frameworks all come from a different era of development - nowadays most newer devs seem to want to build microservice-after-microservice, where these don't quite fit into the picture.

They are doing it and I hope they succeed and prove me wrong but last time I checked Loco was still far from Rails.

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