Gungnir
ActiveA C++ web framework exploring coroutine-based asynchronous application development and approachable framework conventions.
- Role
- Framework design and implementation
- Stack
- C++
- Focus
- Architecture · DX · Implementation
Context
Gungnir is a C++ web framework experiment centered on approachable application conventions and coroutine-based asynchronous execution.
Problem
C++ offers control and performance but typical application development can involve substantial ceremony. Gungnir explores whether framework-level conventions can make common web work more approachable without erasing C++ semantics.
Design Principles
The design prioritizes readable application code, framework-managed plumbing, explicit asynchronous behavior, and familiar concepts such as models, controllers, middleware, policies, events, and notifications.
Architecture
The planned framework surface spans HTTP routing, application services, persistence, templates, authentication and authorization, middleware, asynchronous runtime concerns, tooling, and testing.
Implementation
Development is organized incrementally so runtime and framework primitives can mature before higher-level conveniences depend on them.
Developer Experience
Gungnir aims for code that communicates application intent directly. Coroutine support is part of that model, but asynchronous syntax should not dominate ordinary controller code.
Engineering Decisions
The project treats ORM behavior, eager loading, route binding, dependency management, and framework conventions as coordinated concerns rather than unrelated utilities.
Result
Gungnir is active framework development. Its value at this stage is the architecture and implementation work used to test how far an application-oriented C++ framework can simplify web development.
The work remains intentionally iterative; the implementation is used to validate the architecture.