> I feel like if you're really going to go and write a rails clone, you need to spend a little bit of time digging into some of the other failed attempts and re

> I feel like if you're really going to go and write a rails clone, you need to spend a little bit of time digging into some of the other failed attempts and reasons they failed (eg. 1, 2, 3) first. The idea of creating a "one man framework" like Rails in a systems programming language like Rust is a very tricky one. I don't think you can mimic the best productivity features of Rails without metaprogramming. Yes, you can do something like it, but the abstractions would leak all over the place making it uncomfortable for a Rust developer and not good enough for a Rails developer.