Rails is better low code than low code

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  1. openrun

    Open source alternative to Google Cloud Run and AWS App Runner. Easily deploy internal tools across a team.

    This is what I am trying to solve for with https://github.com/claceio/clace.

    Allow internal tools to be built with regular frameworks, while making it easy to add gitops, SSO, secrets management etc which are required for internal tools.

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  3. manifold

    Manifold is a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more.

    Yep. They demo great, but unless your use case is on the trivial end, you either find yourself making unreasonable compromises or, if the tool provides API escapes, you’re not only coding, but hacking against the tool.

    In my view, mainstream languages like Java should offer static metaprogramming for library authors to make tooling like Rails possible and more approachable in IDEs.

    The manifold project[1] has something like this for SQL, but it’s obviously providing its own static metaprogramming layer over Java. Shrug.

    1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/blob/master/man...

  4. joist-orm

    a TypeScript ORM for Postgres

    > don't want to build in a language w/o types

    Yep; that's the only reason I don't use Rails.

    I'm building "ActiveRecord but with type(script)" at https://joist-orm.io/ and have our own internal "kinda Rails w/GraphQL" going internally--so far we're at ~450 tables and still "feeling good" (no n+1s ever!), but definitely a long way to go before AirBNB-sized problems.

  5. typerb

    Strong type checking (assertion) for Ruby

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