Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework

> But web applications are not just pipelines of isolated tools. They are full of shared assumptions: request shapes, validation boundaries, session handling, rendering, routing, serialization, deployment targets.

Some of those things are specific to web applications. Others are not. It's fine for web-specific logic to be tied to all of the shared assumptions of a web framework, but application logic should not be. As the architecture evolves, the application logic may need to be run in other architectural contexts: as a message consumer, inside an orchestration framework, etc.

That's one of the most painful things about PHP. Entire businesses get built around business logic in PHP backends, and then when you need to execute that logic in a different architectural context, every line of it has to be rewritten, because it's too much work to extricate it from the context of serving web requests.

If you are designing your framework to contain application logic, then it should look ahead to the possibility of that logic being used in a different architectural context. It should facilitate and encourage writing application logic that is agnostic of the web context. Otherwise you're encouraging people to repeat the mistake of PHP all over again.

I remember at the beginning Google didn't want to share their SOTA datacenter with public, considering it a market advantage. So instead of raw VMs they decided to promote the "framework" model, where all the seams are polished, under the name of Google App Engine.

I remember we've been going through a security audit, and many of their questions were about ports security and server access -- well, we did not even have SSH access at all, and only 80/443 ports were accessible. It was a breeze.

However, as market has shown, people really do want finer control, SSH root access, and custom ports. Along with many more fine-tuning. For example, GAE autoscaler did not reassign a request that triggered a new instance, waiting for it to start for 20s even though all requests completed within 200ms, so other workers were available, but the request waited for its own instance to wake up.

So I'm skeptical of "seams hidden" approach, as over and over again I needed to tune that one hidden seam.

Astro js can also handle multiple framework?!

As astro islands

woah cool, I'll ask my agent if it likes this better. If so I'll have it start using it!

The English language has no words (yet) to capture that special combination of nausea and embarrassment one feels when they commit in good faith to reading a long piece of prose... only to slowly realize the whole thing is AI generated. But I'm feeling it more and more often these days.