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TypeORM
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view_component
A framework for building reusable, testable & encapsulated view components in Ruby on Rails.
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ponyc
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
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- Why Janet?
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Show HN: A Tiling Window Manager for Windows, Written in Janet
Tangential but I’ve been writing a lot of Janet recently using Joy[0], web framework, to build a small web app. Would love to hear what you learned about Janet from doing this work and how you feel about the language afterwards.
The one thing I’ve noticed is that it seems like Janet had a burst of interest 2020-2022 but it has since slowed down. Would love to see it become popular again. The main reason I’m using it is because I like how it’s both powerful and lightweight. I’d use clojure but I don’t want Java. I’m tempted to also try Common Lisp but so far Janet has been great.
[0]: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy
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Joy: A maximalist web framework for Lisp aficionados
Hmm I see, that link may be a bit unfortunate, as it only shows the introduction to the docs.
More pages are here: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy/tree/master/docs
PS: I did a very minor contribution to Joy once, so minor that I actually forgot about it :) I don't use Joy myself at the moment as I'm using my own framework, but the Joy docs + source code helped me out a lot in figuring out how to do authentication, csrf, etc!
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Coast on Clojure
He made a similar framework for Janet lang in Joy Framework[1] and it's unironically a joy to work with. Joy is one of those tools that is almost enough to make you use a different language imo. Got it where it counts, but still minimal and low mental overhead.
[1]: https://joy.swlkr.com/
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Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
>Node.js comes so close but anemic standard library
The nodejs API is rather big really. If you're using Ruby as your standard of normal sized almost everything would look small in comparison, but "anemic" is a stretch. You'd really hate Lua.
If you're taking suggestions, you might enjoy Janet[1]. It has a pretty large user API, lots of bells and whistles included in the standard libs like you'd find in Ruby, and lots of different ways to achieve the same result like Ruby. It's been a while since I checked out the ecosystem, but I was _very_ happy with the Joy Framework[2]. It definitely doesn't come close to the scope of Rails, but I think it _does_ near Rails in it's easy of use for the developer with it's scaffolding, controller generation etc.
[1]: https://janet-lang.org/
[2]: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy
- Janet – a Lisp-like functional, imperative programming language
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