#rust

Deep Dives 5 min

58 Ways to Break a VDOM (and Why Ours Didn't)

We wrote 58 torture tests targeting every weak spot in djust's virtual DOM diff engine: 50-level deep trees, 500-sibling lists, keyed shuffles, duplicate keys, and rapid-fire state updates. Everything passed. Here's what we tested, what we found, and why it matters.

Jan 31, 2026 Read more

Deep Dives 10 min

Deep Dive: How djust's ORM JIT Pipeline Serializes Django Models at Rust Speed

djust's JIT serialization pipeline analyzes your templates at render time, generates optimized serializer code, eliminates N+1 queries, and falls back gracefully when Rust can't reach @property attributes. Here's exactly how it works, and what we did to make it fast.

Jan 30, 2026 Read more

Announcements 4 min

djust 0.2.0: Template Operators, VDOM Fixes, and a Cleaner Event Syntax

djust 0.2.0 ships template and/or/in operators, critical VDOM diffing and whitespace fixes, a new dj- event prefix, and major dependency upgrades. Here's what changed and how to upgrade.

Jan 29, 2026 Read more

Announcements 6 min

Introducing djust: Reactive Django Apps Powered by Rust

djust is a Django framework for building reactive, real-time applications in pure Python — powered by a Rust VDOM engine with 30x faster rendering than Django templates. No JavaScript framework required.

Jan 29, 2026 Read more

Deep Dives 4 min

Faster Templates, Smarter Hydration: Performance Optimizations in djust 0.1.6

djust 0.1.6 introduces AST optimization for 5-15% faster rendering, lazy hydration for 20-40% memory reduction, TurboNav integration, and improved whitespace preservation.

Jan 24, 2026 Read more

Deep Dives 1 min

How djust's Rust VDOM Achieves 10-100x Faster Rendering

A deep dive into djust's hybrid Python/Rust architecture and how the Rust-powered virtual DOM engine delivers exceptional performance.

Jan 23, 2026 Read more