Show HN: Rama 0.3 release (5 years in the making)

by gdcbe • 15 days ago

2 5 15 days ago

After close to five years of hard work by many of us, Rama 0.3 marks a milestone worth celebrating: a framework now ready to be used, explored, and built upon by the worldwide community.

vintagedave2• 15 days ago

The blog doesn't explain what Rama is, but it's a network library (?) for Rust: https://ramaproxy.org/

Is it a proxy or more? It seems more despite the name.

OP, I am very happy for you releasing, but I see you have zero upvotes. I think explaining what something is is key in any blogpost. And sorry to say, but the triplet in your text gives AI vibes even though it's a completely legitimate way of writing and I am sure you did write it yourself.

gdcbe3• 15 days ago

Yes the blog post was written completely by me. Not entirely certain what triplet you are referring to, or what that might be, but your suggestion is spot on. Going to add a comment with more context of what rama is as a comment myself. Appologies. Not yet used to promoting projects myself...

vintagedave2• 15 days ago

I totally get it. The triplet was ‘a framework now ready to be used, explored, and built upon by the worldwide community.’ AIs love to claim something is ready or production ready (kinda primed me for thinking AI when I read that), and the triplet is the comma-separated clause, clause, clause.

Why not email HN / dang and ask for a boost? They are very nice and sometimes do, and if it got off to a poor start but is a valuable post, no harm asking. I don’t know the Rust ecosystem enough to judge this, but, good luck.

gdcbe3• 15 days ago

OP Here, sorry for not being clear. And happy for feedback on our presentation, docs, my article and ofc the code itself. It has been under developed since over 5 years, and was used in production right from the start. Now we are at a point that it is used by several different companies and even more individual users.

Here is some context and info about the framework that I am quoting from our README to provide you with context:

Rama is a modular service framework for the Rust (programming) language.

The framework is intentionally explicit. Your network stack is built from services, layers, transports, protocols, and state that you compose yourself. That makes the shape of the system visible in the code, instead of hidden behind framework magic or configuration.

This makes Rama a good fit not only for proxies, but for network services where the stack itself matters: how traffic enters, how it is decoded, where state lives, what gets inspected, what gets transformed, and where it goes next.

Whether you're inspecting traffic for security analysis, writing a web service, emulating clients with custom user agents, controlling connection behavior for advanced testing, or building high-performance proxies, Rama provides a clean and composable Tokio-native foundation for network services in Rust.

Rama is used in production for network security, data extraction, API gateways, routing, and other networked systems.

Show HN: Rama 0.3 release (5 years in the making)

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