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Using a fez (or fes, if you prefer) as a logo for a "Fast, Effective, Simple" framework named "Kemal" is kind of unfortunate/ironic. Kemal Ataturk actually abolished the use of the fez [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_Revolution
Maybe that was his point.
I started, as many do, with a full-featured batteries-included framework (Amber, which is also awesome and super easy to grok), but later realized that I much prefer being closer to the metal and Kemal is exactly that. You can build a fully-functional API in a single file with a few lines of code, and it works easily and quickly.
OK, OK! I keep seeing news for Crystal lately. I can take a hint, Universe - I'll write a new project in it.
Kemal is great, lightweight, fast!!! and I’m using it for a growing number of infrastructure / microservices at CircuitLab (exposing JSON APIs, mostly), as well as to serve web requests on my side project at Total Real returns. If you want to play with Kemal and/or Crystal without installing anything besides Docker, I made https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart . You should be able to add Kemal to sha…
Did that not bother you during development? What was your workflow like?
Using a fez (or fes, if you prefer) as a logo for a "Fast, Effective, Simple" framework named "Kemal" is kind of unfortunate/ironic. Kemal Ataturk actually abolished the use of the fez [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_Revolution
Kemal is great, lightweight, fast!!! and I’m using it for a growing number of infrastructure / microservices at CircuitLab (exposing JSON APIs, mostly), as well as to serve web requests on my side project at Total Real returns. If you want to play with Kemal and/or Crystal without installing anything besides Docker, I made https://github.com/compumike/crystal-docker-quickstart . You should be able to add Kemal to sha…
My main gripe is the compiler speed or lack thereof. I know they were planning an interpreter for dev-mode, but it’s not released yet. Did that not bother you during development? What was your workflow like?
OK, OK! I keep seeing news for Crystal lately. I can take a hint, Universe - I'll write a new project in it.
That last one that hit HN frontpage was 16 days ago [1], and apart from my submission for 1.6 release which barely hit the frontpage, the next discussion on Crystal was September. Compared to the HN darling, Rust. Crystal is hardly active. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably just consequence of some person trying really hard to promote the language these days, rather than a divine intervention.
Some would argue that “some person” and “the universe” are the same.