AHahalam·Nov 27, 2017
In Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Railsmaxpert
raspchat
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maxpert / raspchat
raspchat
A chat server that can run on Raspberry Pi
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7Mentions
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419GitHub stars
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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4 sourceshttps://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670... This is a spinner?! No wonders the code is slow.
The general use of inheritance and very non-idiomatic code makes me think this is another person who ditched Go before understanding any of it. It seems a very popular sport.
In Ditching Go for Node.jsAnd now to get ranty:
Boltdb was being handled badly: https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670... You should be using bolt's helper funcs, so you don't forget to close the transaction
https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670...
At least this is actually deferred, but still.
https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670... These messages are horrifying, would be much better switching back to json and implementing a strategy like http://eagain.net/articles/go-dynamic-json/
It copies in an unlicensed "snowflake generation" thing? https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670... and then essentially relicenses it? That's illegal...?
They do have a better json pattern for some stuff: https://github.com/maxpert/raspchat/blob/79315d861968c126670... but I'd still steer away f
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rom reflection based, there's so much better ways of doing this stuff, like so: http://eagain.net/articles/go-json-kind/