neutron VS crystal

PS: I hope that we selfhosters will have a modern, efficient, easy to use mail suite one day with modern features like JMAP, good self-learning spam integration, automated checks and validations for SPF/DMARC/DKIM or whether the IP/host suddenly appears in a blocklist and integrated encryption at rest for emails. Something that isn't 30 services in a container image, with 30 different configuration styles. Maybe even with an API integrated that's compatible to the ProtonMail frontend (like the neutron server once intended to be). Anyway, I'm sorry for dreaming. ;)

A bit related: there was a FOSS backend once but I don't think anyone wants to push further.

Some folks once started neutron which is an email server that can be used with the FOSS Protonmail web client but it was abandoned. And I guess you'd want to support JMAP in addition to IMAP as well apart from having automated encryption of incoming plain-text emails.

Anyway, to the topic: there was once neutron which is a server that aimed at ProtonMail compatibility. So that'd would simply would be able to use the same open source frontend from ProtonMail. However, this was abandoned. So you, or somebody else, could revive it.

Some folks also started implementing an FOSS ProtonMail but this project was abandoned at some point. But maybe someone will fork and revive it one day.

Two devs once started implementing a free ProtonMail server but they abandoned it. It's understandable, since it's a lot of work.

Some folks once started a free implementation of the Protonmail backend in Go. Maybe you want to revive it?

Some folks also started an open source Protonmail backend but this was abandoned at one point.

27. Crystal - $77,104

I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

    # A very basic HTTP server

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/

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.

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).