illwill
A curses inspired simple cross-platform console library for Nim (by johnnovak)
kemal
Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework (by kemalcr)
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| illwill | kemal | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 14 | |
| 375 | 3,574 | |
| - | 0.4% | |
| 7.4 | 5.5 | |
| 20 days ago | 17 days ago | |
| Nim | Crystal | |
| Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
illwill
Posts with mentions or reviews of illwill.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
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How to detect and even save key presses
smth more advanced than getch: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6919
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Is Nim a good language to write Linux TUI applications?
For making TUIs in Nim, there's Illwill. I've played around with it a bit, and it seems pretty nice. For editing id3 tags, there's the Metatag library. I haven't tried it myself though.
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Illwill text input
Ooh, more Norwegians using Nim? I had a look in the issues of Illwill and came across this: https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill/issues/14. Seems like there is a library of widgets and he has created a simple text input one that you could possibly modify to suit your needs (or just use outright). Not sure if it will support UTF-8 characters though, and I'm on my phone at my cabin right now so can't really check.
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Is it worth learning nim? (In my case)
Check out this library, it's pretty great https://github.com/johnnovak/illwill
kemal
Posts with mentions or reviews of kemal.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-28.
- The New Wave of Programming Languages: Pony, Zig, Crystal, Vlang, & Julia
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Companies Using Kemal in Production
Add your company to the list https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal/wiki/Companies-using-Kemal-in-Production
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Phoenix on Rails - a Phoenix tutorial for Rails developers
https://luckyframework.org/ . Kemal is even faster but it's mostly for APIs. In my opinion it's on par with Actix with much, much better developer experience.
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How do you find the market in 2023?
It's been around for a while under development. It had it's 1.0.0 release in March 2021. There's been two (online) Crystal conferences, and there's two Crystal books published. There's a decent ecosystem of "shards" and there are a couple of Crystal web frameworks and ORMS that are similar to Sinatra or Rails-like. If you already know Ruby, learning Crystal is super easy.
- Kemal: Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework for Crystal
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Marten, a Crystal web framework that makes building web apps productive and fun
They’re all good to try IMO, another is https://kemalcr.com which is akin to Sinatra if you just want to get an HTTP server with routes setup quickly.
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Medusa: The open-source alternative to Shopify
Kemal (like Sinatra, I really like this one): https://kemalcr.com/
- Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
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Packing Static Files Into Crystal Binaries
As an example, consider this small Kemal application:
- Kemal 1.1.0 released
What are some alternatives?
When comparing illwill and kemal you can also consider the following projects:
nimwave - TUIs for the terminal, desktop, and web
amber - A Crystal web framework that makes building applications fast, simple, and enjoyable. Get started with quick prototyping, less bugs, and blazing fast performance.
promexplorer - A simple tool to explore prometheus exporter metrics
lucky - A full-featured Crystal web framework that catches bugs for you, runs incredibly fast, and helps you write code that lasts.
tui-rs - Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust
raze - Modular, light web framework for Crystal
rich-cli - Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal
amethyst - Amethyst is a Rails inspired web-framework for Crystal language
ansiwave - A modern BBS
grip - The microframework for writing powerful web applications.
mysitemap - generating sitemap.xml for static content sites, alongwith some dynamic links support
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