Status: Utterly experimental, with no promise whatsoever that it will ever move out of that phase.
An experimental web framework for Go. The two-and-a-half raison d'etre are:
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Default secure. Where ever possible, the web is turned into a default secure environment rather than a default insecure environment that must laboriously have all of its security switches flipped back on.
This also means the framework requires that all users be at all times authenticated and authorized, and (eventually) provide evidence that some sort of security check was performed.
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Default streaming: Rather than the web being viewed as a series of static pages, this framework defaults to seeing the world as a series of composable streams, for which static web pages are merely one particularly interesting case.
I get the sense that some web frameworks are headed this way, but it still seems to come with more baggage than I'd like. This is designed to make streaming as easy as communicating over Go channels.
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And this is the "half" - this framework is designed to be used in places where people care about auditing, and thus, designed to be highly auditable. In particular, some effort is taken to make the routing tables comprehensible to auditors.
The routing is also heavily, heavily biased in the direction of providing power, rather than speed. The idea is that a Sphyraena application could replace arbitrarily complicated nginx configurations eventually. To do that, framework users need to be able to provide their own routing clauses.
At the moment this is only up on GitHub for personal convenience. I expect it would be outright impossible for anyone other than me to bring a Sphyraena website up and actually use the features described above, not to mention some of them don't exist yet.