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10 | 366 | |
2,545 | 7,342 | |
0.0% | 1.3% | |
6.3 | 9.8 | |
3 months ago | 5 days ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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- The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, & Julia
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These are the 4 requirements for a better Reddit
Technologically robust, making use of open source frameworks that ensure scalability of usage and auditability of the codebase. So, no PHP-based rickety structures or the secret devising of some lone wolf developer. This can't be trusted by anyone: its development must be done in the public repositories. Consider using a Crystal framework such as Amber, which is a compiled-to-binary Ruby clone, lightning-fast (it can handle over 1 million+ requests per second) and compatible with the expansive Rails ecosystem. Or any other solid language base, such as Go or Java.
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Crystal PCRE2 Upgrade Guide
I'm in a similar situation with the Amber Framework. I'm not one of the original creators of Amber, I just took it over last year (2022). So I have a decent size code base to maintain with potential for breaking changes.
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Marten, a Crystal web framework that makes building web apps productive and fun
I'd love to see two docs there:
- What's different from Lucky https://luckyframework.org/
- What's different from Amber https://amberframework.org/
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Medusa: The open-source alternative to Shopify
Amber : https://amberframework.org/
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Making an mpd-based music hosting site.
hey r/webdev, i have a side project i want to make, where users with different logins can upload music files onto a server via ftp, and listen to it back via mpd. I've decided for the meantime, on using the [amber framework](https://amberframework.org/). Each user will have a basic username/password login with *optional* OTP sent via email, a specific limit on the amount of storage they get (say, 5-10Gb), and a user-specific mpd connection\*
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Do you think Crystal has a future in the Ruby community?
https://luckyframework.org/ one of the web frameworks available in Crystal. There's also Amber, Grip, and SpiderGazel (the most Rails-like).
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Crystal for the curious Ruby on Rails Developer
Amber
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Have you checked out Crystal?
Well, I guess have something to share with you! https://github.com/amberframework/amber
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Crystal Lang 1.0 Release
https://amberframework.org/
There are two pretty big web frameworks in the Crystal world right now, one is Kemal which strives to be the Sinatra or Flask of the Crystal world (lightweight, supporting plugins), and the other is Crystal which is trying to be the Ruby on Rails or Django of the Crystal world (full-featured, opinionated).
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Why choose async/await over threads?
Eh. Async and to a lesser extent green threads are the only solutions to slowloris HTTP attacks. I suppose your other option is to use a thread pool in your server - but then you need to but hide your web server behind nginx to keep it safe. (And it is safe because uses async IO).
Async is also usually wildly faster for networked services than blocking IO + thread pools. Look at some of the winners of the techempower benchmarks. All of the top results use some form of non blocking IO. (Though a few honourable mentions use go - with presumably a green thread per request):
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
I’ve also never seen Python or Ruby get anywhere near the performance of nodejs (or C#) as a web server. A lot of the difference is probably how well tuned v8 and .net are, but I’m sure the async-everywhere nature of javascript makes a huge difference.
Neat. Thanks for sharing!
Interestingly, may-minihttp is faring very well in the TechEmpower benchmark [1], for whatever those benchmarks are worth. The code is also surprisingly straightforward [2].
[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
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Ntex: Powerful, pragmatic, fast framework for composable networking services
ntex was formed after a schism in actix-web and Rust safety/unsafety, with ntex allowing more unsafe code for better performance.
ntex is at the top of the TechEmpower benchmarks, although those benchmarks are not apples-to-apples since each uses its own tricks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...
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A decent VS Code and Ruby on Rails setup
Ruby is slow. Very slow. How much you may ask? https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s... fastest Ruby entry is at 272th place. Sure, top entries tend to have questionable benchmark-golfing implementations, but it gives you a good primer on the overhead imposed by Ruby.
It is also not early 00s anymore, when you pick an interpreted language, you are not getting "better productivity and tooling". In fact, most interpreted languages lag behind other major languages significantly in the form of JS/TS, Python and Ruby suffering from different woes when it comes to package management and publishing. I would say only TS/JS manages to stand apart with being tolerable, and Python sometimes too by a virtue of its popularity and the amount of information out there whenever you need to troubleshoot.
If you liked Go but felt it being a too verbose to your liking, give .NET a try. I am advocating for it here on HN mostly for fun but it is, in fact, highly underappreciated, considered unsexy and boring while it's anything but after a complete change of trajectory in the last 3-5 years. It is actually the* stack people secretly want but simply don't know about because it is bundled together with Java in the public perception.
*productive CLI tooling, high performance, works well in a really wide range of workloads from low to high level, by far the best ORM across all languages and back-end framework that is easier to work with than Node.JS while consuming 0.1x resources
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Ruby 3.3
RoR and whatever C++ based web backend there is count as a valid comparison in my book. But comparing the languages itself is maybe a bit off.
On a side note, you can actually compare their performance here if you’re really curious. But take it with a grain of salt since these are synthetic benchmarks.
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API: Go, .NET, Rust
Most benchmarks you'll find essentially have someone's thumb on the scale (intentionally or unintentionally). Most people won't know the different languages well enough to create comparable implementations and if you let different people create the implementations, cheating happens. The TechEmpower benchmarks aren't bad, but many implementations put their thumb on the scale (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks). For example, a lot of the Go implementations avoid the GC by pre-allocating/reusing structs or allocate arrays knowing how big they need to be in advance (despite that being against the rules). At some point, it becomes "how many features have you turned off." Some Go http routers (like fasthttp and those built off it like Atreugo and Fiber) aren't actually correct and a lot of people in the Go community discourage their use, but they certainly top the benchmarks. Gin and Echo are usually the ones that are well-respected in the Go community.
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Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
TechEmpower has a few different classes of benchmark. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Off the top of my head:
- json serialization
- fetching random objects from an actual mysql/psql database
- cached queries
- performing mutations / data updates
writing "hello world" as a response is naturally going to do 75k per second
There is certainly a lot of speculation in Techempower benchmarks and top entries can utilize questionable techniques like simply writing a byte array literal to output stream instead of constructing a response, or (in the past) DB query coalescing to work around inherent limitations of the DB in case of Fortunes or DB quries.
And yet, the fastest Ruby entry is at 274th place while Rails is at 427th.
https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...
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Node.js – v20.8.1
oh what machine? with how many workers? doing what?
search for "node" on this page: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21
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Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
JustJS would like a word https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&tes...
What are some alternatives?
lucky - A full-featured Crystal web framework that catches bugs for you, runs incredibly fast, and helps you write code that lasts.
kemal - Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework
zio-http - A next-generation Scala framework for building scalable, correct, and efficient HTTP clients and servers
drogon - Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows [Moved to: https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon]
LiteNetLib - Lite reliable UDP library for Mono and .NET
django-ninja - 💨 Fast, Async-ready, Openapi, type hints based framework for building APIs
C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
SQLBoiler - Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema.
Laravel - The Laravel Framework.
CoreWCF - Main repository for the Core WCF project
Spiral Framework - High-Performance PHP Framework
web-frameworks - Which is the fastest web framework?