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Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#91

$5 million raised for hosting? I honestly fail to understand the ways of VC despite a decade of trying to understand them.

This is literally Vercel for Python, and Vercel as a company has performed extremely well so far. It's not really much of a stretch to understand why they got funding.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean because we can already use Flask or Django in serverless functions on Vercel.

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#92

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I haven't kept up with web framework type things in awhile—how commonplace is this? from here it looks kind of insane.

We are keeping all our telemetry anonymous and don't store/track ips https://nextjs.org/telemetry https://docs.streamlit.io/library/advanced-features/configur...

good Lord, when did things get to be like this? if I shipped a free web framework with opt-out telemetry, I'd feel like a massive douche

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#95

My only wish for this is that it didn't just cobble a bunch of existing web stuff together behind the scenes and put an python interface + code generator on it. Installing all the python deps (250mb), and node_modules (500mb) , plus a package size of 3mb of js isn't a great look.

Wild timeline: for ref. a HTTP webserver in C would run you under 1mb, all-in, if TLS'sn't required.

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#96

My only wish for this is that it didn't just cobble a bunch of existing web stuff together behind the scenes and put an python interface + code generator on it. Installing all the python deps (250mb), and node_modules (500mb) , plus a package size of 3mb of js isn't a great look.

Wild timeline: for ref. a HTTP webserver in C would run you under 1mb, all-in, if TLS'sn't required.

Heh, yes. See:

https://acme.com/software/micro_httpd/

from

https://acme.com/

Also see:

https://acme.com/software/mini_httpd/

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#97

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We are keeping all our telemetry anonymous and don't store/track ips https://nextjs.org/telemetry https://docs.streamlit.io/library/advanced-features/configur...

good Lord, when did things get to be like this? if I shipped a free web framework with opt- out telemetry, I'd feel like a massive douche

Opt-out telemetry in companies based on open source projects has become a critical component of YC applications, VC pitches, and acquisition pitches. If it was opt-in of course nobody would turn it on. It's shady but I also somewhat understand the founders who are doing product-led growth by giving out the product on GitHub/PyPI, yet still need some usage metrics to quantify the stickiness to their backers. Pip installs and git clones/forks are only a loose indicator of real usage.

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#98
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There’s nothing user identifiable here though. No ips, locations, etc. I guess they could get it from the reception though hmm

> No ips It sends the information to a remote server, so your IP is obviously shared as well. It also sends a "project_hash" as "distinct_id" which sounds like a unique tracking ID to me.

Probably counting how many apps are in the wild to show investors.

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#99

A lot of diagnostic in this discussion so far misses how approachably straightforward the DSL (patterned Python) is. I'd go so far as to say the patterns are so clean they're almost self-evident , which is remarkable lift for beginners or busy people just mocking up something functional.

Btw what's "patterned Python"?

Re: Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

#100

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This is literally Vercel for Python, and Vercel as a company has performed extremely well so far. It's not really much of a stretch to understand why they got funding.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean because we can already use Flask or Django in serverless functions on Vercel.

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