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> the thing that's attractive to me about Pump is how exceedingly simple it is

The problem with that is that "your simple" != "everyone else's simple". Maybe my "simple" is to have the ability to yield chunks of data as it gets generated using chunked transfer. It is a simple thing, WSGI can handle but Pump can't.

Pump is trying to replace WSGI but WSGI is a standard, if it tries to replace a standard API it has to prove that it can do all the things WSGI can do, so WSGI can be kicked to the side and everyone can switch to Pump.

So to summarize, it is ok if Pump just claimed to be a simple HTTP interface but as soon as it claims to be a better, less complex WSGI, then it starts to play the "standard" game and it show how the author doesn't really understand what WSGI is and how it got to be that way.



> Maybe my "simple" is to have the ability to yield chunks of data as it gets generated using chunked transfer.

I'm curious, have you ever actually had to do this? Even Rails only just got this feature in 3.1 (http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/4/18/why-http-streaming).


Yes I had to do this for an interactive media site.




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