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36 | 2,681 | |
4,805 | 92,831 | |
0.3% | 2.6% | |
9.1 | 10.0 | |
8 days ago | 3 days ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Opal
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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.
- All web applications may be created in the optimal environment created by Ruby, JS, and Vite.
rust
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I hate Rust (programming language)
> instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.
Yeah, they didn't follow the instructions and got burned. I still think that multiple things went wrong simultaneously for that experience. I wonder if more prevalent uses of `#[doc(alias = "name")]` being leveraged by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120730 (which now that I check only accounts for methods and not functions, I should get on that!) so that when changing APIs around people at least get a slightly better experience.
- Rust Weird Exprs
- Critical safety flaw found in Rust on Windows (CVE-2024-24576)
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Unformat Rust code into perfect rectangles
Almost fixed the compiler: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123325
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Implement React v18 from Scratch Using WASM and Rust - [1] Build the Project
Rust: A secure, efficient, and modern programming language (omitting ten thousand words). You can simply follow the installation instructions provided on the official website.
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Show HN: Fancy-ANSI – Small JavaScript library for converting ANSI to HTML
Recently did something similar in Rust but for generating SVGs. We've adopted it for snapshot testing of cargo and rustc's output. Don't have a good PR handy for showing Github's rendering of changes in the SVG (text, side-by-side, swiping) but https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/121877/files has newly added SVGs.
To see what is supported, see the screenshot in the docs: https://docs.rs/anstyle-svg/latest/anstyle_svg/
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Upgrading Hundreds of Kubernetes Clusters
We strongly believe in Rust as a powerful language for building production-grade software, especially for systems like ours that run alongside Kubernetes.
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What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
The above Assert<{N % 2 == 1}> requires #![feature(generic_const_exprs)] and the nightly toolchain. See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/76560 for more info.
- Enable frame pointers for the Rust standard library
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Learning Rust: Structuring Data with Structs
Another week, another dive into Rust. This time, we're delving into structs. Structs bear resemblance to interfaces in TypeScript, enabling the grouping of intricate data sets within an object, much like TypeScript/JavaScript. Rust also accommodates functions within these structs, offering a semblance of classes, albeit with distinctions. Let's delve into this topic.
What are some alternatives?
MRuby - Lightweight Ruby
carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)
JRuby - JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Rubinius - The Rubinius Language Platform
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).
Reactrb
Odin - Odin Programming Language
yjit - Optimizing JIT compiler built inside CRuby
Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
natalie - a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++
Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer