Opal | crystal | |
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37 | 239 | |
4,817 | 19,168 | |
0.2% | 0.3% | |
8.8 | 9.8 | |
3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
Ruby | Crystal | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Opal
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HTML Ruby Markup Extensions Working Draft Published
https://github.com/opal/opal?tab=readme-ov-file#compiling-ru...
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RubyJS-Vite
It's been a long time dream for me since about 2013 when I started getting deep into Ruby and Rails, to be able to write Ruby code for the frontend instead of JavaScript. I was a lover and adopter of CoffeeScript (which had it's flaws and imperfections), but that mostly got killed by ES6. I wrote some PoCs with Opal[1] that felt pretty good to write, but the overhead was rough (this was many years ago so things might be different now) and I never really felt like I didn't have to know about or care about the underlying javascript. I tend to discard leaky abstractions as I feel they often add more complexity than they were meant to cover in the first place.
Has anybody used this or Opal or anything else? What is the state of "write your frontend in Ruby" nowadays?
[1]: https://github.com/opal/opal
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Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success
Every time I see a respectable project use a Code of Conduct I remind myself that, unfortunately, Caroline Ada won[1]
[1] https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
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Coming to grips with JS: a Rubyist's deep dive
But we shouldn't overstate the difference: the JS and Ruby object models are actually similar in how dynamic both of them are. This makes Ruby-to-JS compilers like Opal easier to implement, according to an Opal maintainer.
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Opal – a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler
This is an interview with the author of Opal, here's the project:
https://github.com/opal/opal
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GCC Adopts a Code of Conduct
Not the OP, but from what I remember they would seek out every possible opportunity in every single possible open source community they could find and propose the CoC that they wrote. 0 contributions to the projects, with the exception of demanding that people implement incredibly verbose CoC's in their projects under the guise of "protecting the minorities contributing to the projects".
Most infamous instance is probably this one, in the Opal repo: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
As well as this thread in the Ruby issue tracker that devolves into pure chaos with Ada refusing to actually participate in any of the valid points others bring up: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12004
And I'm sure there's many other instances if you look around a bit.
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Hackers Flood NPM with Bogus Packages Causing a DoS Attack
My experience with ruby for front end web dev is via https://opalrb.com/
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The Rust Trademark Borrow Checker : Rust Foundation Solicits Feedback on Updated Policy for Trademarks
Here's an example of the creator of the most adopted CoC (the Contributor Covenant) trying to get an open source contributor removed from a project due to his political opinions expressed on Twitter which she didn't like and found offensive.
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Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python
So ruby has a JS transpiler - opal - https://opalrb.com/
I tried using it a little bit but the reality is if you need JS to make your app more interactable it's really worth it to just learn some JS. As soon as you need something complex the extra layer of abstraction just gets in the way and becomes more of a headache, and if you don't need anything complex then you don't need JS in the first place.
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DebunkThis: Coraline Ada Ehmke hasn't really contributed that much as far as code goes
I stumbled upon this thing from years ago. I did some more digging to see what other communities thought about it. Turns out that a lot of people are really against Coraline's side.
crystal
- A Language for Humans and Computers
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Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
27. Crystal - $77,104
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org
# A very basic HTTP server
- Is Fortran "A Dead Language"?
- Choosing Go at American Express
- Odin Programming Language
- I Love Ruby
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Ruby 3.3's YJIT: Faster While Using Less Memory
Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago.
If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly ruby-like in syntax, style, and developer ergonomics.[^2] Although it's an entirely different language. Also a tiny community.
[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
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What languages are useful for contribution to the GNOME project.
Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well.
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Jets: The Ruby Serverless Framework
Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything.
My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting.
I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really interesting and am hoping it has its own "ruby on rails" moment that helps the language reach a tipping point in popularity. All the beauty of ruby with all of the speed of Go (and then some, it often compares favorably to languages like rust in benchmarks).
What are some alternatives?
MRuby - Lightweight Ruby
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
JRuby - JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM
Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Rubinius - The Rubinius Language Platform
go - The Go programming language
Reactrb
Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
yjit - Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby
mint-lang - :leaves: A refreshing programming language for the front-end web
ruby.wasm - ruby.wasm is a collection of WebAssembly ports of the CRuby.
Odin - Odin Programming Language