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[RobertoPrevato]

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[4l1fe]

Yet another one ASGI framework, why?

[RobertoPrevato]

Because I initially included an HTTP Server implementation in my framework, using Cython to implement the response handling part.
My work proved to be good since benchmarks from TechEmpower showed that my framework is one of the fastest for Python today:

However, maintaining an HTTP Server implementation together with the implementation of a web framework is a lot of work. I exchanged a few emails with Tom Christie and he recommended me to drop my HTTP Server implementation and make my web framework ASGI compatible.
Tom Christie's advice was good because I can dedicate myself on higher level abstractions rather than lower level HTTP handling details, like implementing support for HTTP2 and HTTP3.

If I will ever work on an HTTP Server again I will release it anyway as a separate component, but I don't see this happening unless my work will be sponsored. Because I don't have time and energy to work on something more for free.

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On the other hand, I wanted my web framework to support dependency injection out of the box and request handler normalization, like ASP.NET Core does - because in my opinion this is an important feature in a web framework. Tom Christie has a different point of view on this matter, so I prefer to keep my own web framework on top of uvicorn rather than abandoning my project.

I wrote more on this subject here on my blog.

[skivis]

Just found BlackSheep an hour ago, been reading the docs & examples and browsing through the repo, and I have to say I love it and I'm super stoked about this project. Definitely gonna give it a go and I hope it gains some more traction ASAP!

[RobertoPrevato]

Thank You, @skivis! It means a lot to me. I hope you will find it useful. I dedicated lots of time to study and work on this project. In the last days I took a short break but I will soon start working on more improvements.