crystal-docker-quickstart VS hn-search

Happy Crystal user and code contributor here. (Also created https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart in case you want to try Crystal without installing anything.) In my opinion:

- Slow compile times are still a pain for iteration.

- The REPL / interpreter mode is still rough around the edges.

As far as companies using Crystal:

- We’re using it happily in production at Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/status

- Kagi is using it for their search engine backend https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32687071

- Other companies using it list: https://crystal-lang.org/used_in_prod/

This is great Serdar.

As an alternative to Chapter 2 I’ll also share https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart my project template which lets you get a Crystal (currently 1.6.2) dev environment running with just Docker. Good for kicking the tires, which is what I think your audience is probably wanting to do! And then eventually can install a binary package as you suggest.

My side project https://totalrealreturns.com/ is now about 5k lines of Crystal. There are some rough edges: in particular I think it could use a better templating solution (a port of HAML would be ideal!), and there are some failure modes with the Redis connection pool that have required workarounds.

This includes unit tests: the built-in spec framework is great and much like rspec. https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.6/guides/testing.html

I'm now starting to use Crystal for internal backend infrastructure and microservices.

For anyone who wants to kick the tires on Crystal, I built a crystal-docker-quickstart project template: https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart works without having to install anything locally. (Assuming you have docker.) You can have your own, home-built "Hello world" static binary in under a minute:

    git clone https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart.git my_app && cd my_app && ./d_dev

If you'd like to try out Crystal without installing anything locally, I've created a tiny Docker container with a Crystal project template:

https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart

For example, you may do:

    git clone https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart.git my_app

Happy 10,000 day to you

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nand2tetris.org

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

not sure. I searched comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

Most recent are more culture wars stuff but some earlier ones appear to suggesting a degree of alignment with the USA government.

This is a topic that has come up a ton on HN, in submitted articles[1] and practically once a day in comments[2]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Many stories related to the ongoing famine and genocide in Gaza are tech-related: tech companies big and small are enabling Israel's military action in Gaza and in some cases directly supporting the occupation and genocide. The injustices of the real world are often played out again in cyber space, what some people have called a "digital apartheid".

This week, both Google and Amazon employees protested their company's involvement in this, and the stories relating to this were immediately removed from Hacker News front page. Why?

Why is HN flagging anything related to this topic?

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=Israel&sort=byDate&type=story

Here some of the previpus submissions, with lots of comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Calculus+Made+Easy

Sorry for the offtopicness, but trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN, so we've banned this account.

If you want to pick a different username, we can rename it for you and unban the account, as long as the username is genuinely neutral.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Lazier than you think! You almost nerdsniped me into seeing how fast I could whip up a crawler but then I checked the search and found out it can find comments and use a custom date range.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1700092800&dateRange=custom&...

We really do love pudding.cool[1]- I'd never bothered to go look at what it's actually all about till today, and you should too if you've not, because it wasn't exactly as I expected: https://pudding.cool/about/

[1]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Is this post showing a bug in HN? It says it was posted 10 hours ago, but Algolia says it was posted 2 days ago

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

And mehulashah's comment that the thread claims was posted 7 hours ago was also posted two days ago, according to Algolia

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

From https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... it looks likethere are like 5 or 6 post per year.