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Use F# with a TypeProvider. Of course, I imagine it would take some work learning F# but once you learn it the sky is the limit in what you can do with this data.

Inbox wasn't a web app. That's why never used it. You had to install the app onto your phone. Since I'm a light user of email this didn't make sense. From reading the comments I ca…

Reminds me of F# type providers. Maybe more powerful? I think defining everything at the DB makes sense and then you can generate much of the code beyond that and then you only nee…

Pretty neat. I'm assuming you cache the results from the google sheet and update them when the google sheet is updated? Another idea. Would be to have a "under maintenance" flag yo…

I find F#'s type inference to be really nice. You feel like you are almost writing in a scripting language but whenever you mess something up it will tell you. And if you say, "No …

Apple is, by US law, required to maximize their profits for its investors. I'm not religious, but I agree with the sentiment: "Thou shalt not covet." Rather than drag on Apple mayb…

Languages like F# give a nice sweet spot between static typing and dynamic typing. It has Type Providers that "generate" code on the fly as you are typing. You don't need to specif…

Many non-profits exist to make money too. Some people find doing a non-profit makes more money than a "for profit" company. I do think that money isn't always the main motivator, i…

PostgRest with Mithril.js or Elm on the front end. Keep it simple. Or WebSharper with SQL Server for a more integrated feel with static typing all the way from the database all the…

Fascinating, You'll use Kotlin but not F#.

I built an app in Excel 5 years ago. It was a heat map for events, for stadiums, theaters, etc. I would build the static CSS/HTML and write out the files from Excel. It is still in…

Something missing from this entire discussion is that developers have a hard time understanding what are truly best practices for their product they are creating/maintaining. It is…

The best ORM ever, F#'s FSharp.Data.SqlClient. A very thin layer that let's you statically program in SQL in your app. But I typically just use Functions/Stored Procs. But sometime…

F# is an amazing language on the .NET stack that is strongly/statically typed but will infer many of the types. It has TypeProviders which let you strongly type your external code …

A functional type approach. It will be interesting to look more into it. It would be nice to have a .map, .filter functions (if they don't already exist). So, if you don't want to …

Open Garden already does this. Plug and chug. Pretty straight forward.