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lucky
Crystal2018–2023
luckyframework / lucky

lucky

A full-featured Crystal web framework that catches bugs for you, runs incredibly fast, and helps you write code that lasts.

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5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.7KGitHub stars
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A full-featured Crystal web framework that catches bugs for you, runs incredibly fast, and helps you write code that lasts.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-15 18:38:45 UTC to 2023-02-15 03:23:54 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Ruby on rails is still good and getting better. It has almost every answer/guide possible already on the internet. Otherwise if you prefer better typing, I'm poking https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky from time to time... It looks interesting, but doesn't have a large user base yet. For the front-end, I found Vuejs quite nice to add exactly where it's needed. Otherwise I can leave 99% of the site a plain html template.
In Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?
> Crystal is irrelevant as a comparison to Ruby, because there is no Rails. I wouldn't say it's irrelevant, Crystal is already being used by ex-Rubyists and the ecosystem of crystal libraries are being built by them as well. After 1.0 you would see more of this happening. Lucky [0][1] by Thoughtbot is the closest to Rails in the Crystal world. > The biggest downside of Ruby compared to other languages (besides speed, but like I said, that doesn't matter here), is lack of static typing. That may or may not be a problem depending on your usecase. Then I shouldn't see any complaints about speed on Ruby if it doesn't matter, Crystal solves all of this built in, with the trade off of slower build times, but then again Rust also has slower build times as well. But to each their own. [0] https://luckyframework.org/ [1] https://github.com/luckyfr
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In Why Wasn't Ruby 3 Faster?
Some news in the past 5 months: Crystal is now %100 funded for a full-time developer working on core - https://twitter.com/CrystalLanguage/status/98229223882167500... Crystal Automated Release towards 1.0 - https://crystal-lang.org/2018/03/09/crystal-automated-releas... A summary of why vs. why not - https://medium.com/@DuroSoft/why-crystal-is-the-most-promisi... Web Frameworks Status: Rails inspired (with Influence from Phoenix): Amber - https://github.com/amberframework/amber Lucky - https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky Both look healthy in terms of community and updates but Amber seems to have a slight edge. Sinatra inspired: Kemal - https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal
In The Crystal Programming Language

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