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Alternatives to HAML

Slim, Pug, YAML, JavaScript, and Python are the most popular alternatives and competitors to HAML.
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What is HAML and what are its top alternatives?

Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.
HAML is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
HAML is an open source tool with 3.7K GitHub stars and 566 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to HAML's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to HAML

  • Slim
    Slim

    Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself. ...

  • Pug
    Pug

    This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers. ...

  • YAML
    YAML

    A human-readable data-serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files, but could be used in many applications where data is being stored or transmitted. ...

  • JavaScript
    JavaScript

    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...

  • Python
    Python

    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...

  • HTML5
    HTML5

    HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997. ...

  • PHP
    PHP

    Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world. ...

  • Java
    Java

    Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere! ...

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Slim

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    Microframework
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    API
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    Open source
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    Php
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    Fast
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    Restful & fast framework
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    Easy Setup, Great Documentation
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    Modular
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    Clear and straightforward
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    Good document to upgrade from previous version
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    Dependency injection
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    I'm about to start a new project to build a REST API, and I got to this point: Yii2 Vs Lumen Vs Slim, I used Yii 1.1 a while a go and it was awesome, really easy to work with, as a developer you don't have to worry about almost anything, just setup the framework, get your php extensions, and start coding your app.

    But, I was told about performance and someone recomended Lumen or Slim to work with a micro framework and a less bloated framework, what worries me is the lack of advantages that Yii2 offers, ACF and RBAC as a native tool on the framework, gii, the model validations and all the security props already in it.

    Is it worth it? Is the performance so great on those frameworks to leave aside the advantages of a framework like Yii2?

    How do you suggest to make the test to prove wich one is better?

    PHP Lumen Yii Slim

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    Pug

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      Open source
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      Very short syntax
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      Structured with indentation
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      Free
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      Really similar to Slim (from Ruby fame)
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      It's not HAML
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      Gulp
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      Clean syntax
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      Readable code
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      Easy setup
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      Difficult For Front End Developers,learn backend
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            Lots of great frameworks
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            Fast
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            Light weight
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            Flexible
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            You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
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            Non-blocking i/o
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            Ubiquitousness
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            Expressive
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            Extended functionality to web pages
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            Relatively easy language
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            Executed on the client side
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            Relatively fast to the end user
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            Pure Javascript
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            Functional programming
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            Async
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            Full-stack
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            Its everywhere
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            Setup is easy
          • 11
            JavaScript is the New PHP
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            Because I love functions
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            Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
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            Easy
          • 9
            Future Language of The Web
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            Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
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            Expansive community
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            Most Popular Language in the World
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            Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
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            For the good parts
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            No need to use PHP
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            Easy to hire developers
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            Everyone use it
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            Love-hate relationship
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            Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
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            Agile, packages simple to use
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            Supports lambdas and closures
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            Powerful
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            Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
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            Evolution of C
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            1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
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            Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
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            Versitile
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            It let's me use Babel & Typescript
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            Easy to make something
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            Its fun and fast
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            Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
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            Hard not to use
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            Nice
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            It's fun
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            What to add
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            Clojurescript
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            Promise relationship
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            Stockholm Syndrome
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            Function expressions are useful for callbacks
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            Scope manipulation
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            Everywhere
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            Client processing
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            Only Programming language on browser
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            Because it is so simple and lightweight
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            Test
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            Not the best
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            Subskill #4
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            Easy to learn
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            Test2
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            Hard 彤
          CONS OF JAVASCRIPT
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            A constant moving target, too much churn
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            Horribly inconsistent
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            Javascript is the New PHP
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            No ability to monitor memory utilitization
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            Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
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            Thinks strange results are better than errors
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            Can be ugly
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          Oof. I have truly hated JavaScript for a long time. Like, for over twenty years now. Like, since the Clinton administration. It's always been a nightmare to deal with all of the aspects of that silly language.

          But wowza, things have changed. Tooling is just way, way better. I'm primarily web-oriented, and using React and Apollo together the past few years really opened my eyes to building rich apps. And I deeply apologize for using the phrase rich apps; I don't think I've ever said such Enterprisey words before.

          But yeah, things are different now. I still love Rails, and still use it for a lot of apps I build. But it's that silly rich apps phrase that's the problem. Users have way more comprehensive expectations than they did even five years ago, and the JS community does a good job at building tools and tech that tackle the problems of making heavy, complicated UI and frontend work.

          Obviously there's a lot of things happening here, so just saying "JavaScript isn't terrible" might encompass a huge amount of libraries and frameworks. But if you're like me, yeah, give things another shot- I'm somehow not hating on JavaScript anymore and... gulp... I kinda love it.

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          Conor Myhrvold
          Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

          How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

          Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

          Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

          https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

          (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

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            Great libraries
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            Readable code
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            Beautiful code
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            Rapid development
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            Large community
          • 433
            Open source
          • 391
            Elegant
          • 280
            Great community
          • 272
            Object oriented
          • 217
            Dynamic typing
          • 77
            Great standard library
          • 58
            Very fast
          • 54
            Functional programming
          • 47
            Easy to learn
          • 45
            Scientific computing
          • 35
            Great documentation
          • 28
            Matlab alternative
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            Productivity
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            Easy to read
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            Simple is better than complex
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            It's the way I think
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            Imperative
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            Free
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            Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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            Machine learning support
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            Powerfull language
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            Fast and simple
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            Scripting
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            Explicit is better than implicit
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            Ease of development
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            Clear and easy and powerfull
          • 9
            Unlimited power
          • 8
            It's lean and fun to code
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            Import antigravity
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            Python has great libraries for data processing
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            Print "life is short, use python"
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            Flat is better than nested
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            Readability counts
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            Rapid Prototyping
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            Fast coding and good for competitions
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            Now is better than never
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            There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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            High Documented language
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            I love snakes
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            Although practicality beats purity
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            Great for tooling
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            Great for analytics
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            Lists, tuples, dictionaries
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            Multiple Inheritence
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            Complex is better than complicated
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            Socially engaged community
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            Easy to learn and use
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            Web scraping
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            Easy to setup and run smooth
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            Beautiful is better than ugly
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            Plotting
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            CG industry needs
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            It is Very easy , simple and will you be love programmi
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            Many types of collections
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            If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad id
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            Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules
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            Pip install everything
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            List comprehensions
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            Generators
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            Import this
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            Flexible and easy
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            Batteries included
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            Can understand easily who are new to programming
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            Powerful language for AI
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            Should START with this but not STICK with This
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            A-to-Z
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            Because of Netflix
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            Only one way to do it
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            Better outcome
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            Good for hacking
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            Securit
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            Sexy af
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          CONS OF PYTHON
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            Still divided between python 2 and python 3
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            Performance impact
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            Poor syntax for anonymous functions
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            GIL
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            Package management is a mess
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            Too imperative-oriented
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            Hard to understand
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            Dynamic typing
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            Very slow
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            Indentations matter a lot
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            Not everything is expression
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            Incredibly slow
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            Explicit self parameter in methods
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            Poor DSL capabilities
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            No anonymous functions
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            Fake object-oriented programming
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            Threading
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            The "lisp style" whitespaces
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            Official documentation is unclear.
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            Circular import
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            Lack of Syntax Sugar leads to "the pyramid of doom"
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            The benevolent-dictator-for-life quit
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            Meta classes
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          Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

          How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

          Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

          Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

          https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

          (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

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          Nick Parsons
          Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 3.2M views

          Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

          We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

          We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

          Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

          #FrameworksFullStack #Languages

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          HTML5

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            Local storage
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            Canvas
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            Semantic header and footer
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            Video element
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            Geolocation
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            Form autofocus
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            Email inputs
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            Editable content
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            Application caches
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            Easy to use
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            Easy
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            Semantical
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            Better
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            Audio element
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            Modern
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            Websockets
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            Semantic Header and Footer, Geolocation, New Doctype
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            Content focused
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            Compatible
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            Portability
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            Very easy to learning to HTML
          CONS OF HTML5
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            Easy to forget the tags when you're a begginner
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            Long and winding code

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          Developer Advocate at Superface · | 26 upvotes · 329.3K views
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          Few years ago we were building a Next.js site with a few simple forms. This required handling forms validation and submission, but instead of picking some forms library, we went with plain JavaScript and constraint validation API in HTML5. This shaved off a few KBs of dependencies and gave us full control over the validation behavior and look. I describe this approach, with its pros and cons, in a blog post.

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          Jonathan Pugh
          Software Engineer / Project Manager / Technical Architect · | 25 upvotes · 2.9M views

          I needed to choose a full stack of tools for cross platform mobile application design & development. After much research and trying different tools, these are what I came up with that work for me today:

          For the client coding I chose Framework7 because of its performance, easy learning curve, and very well designed, beautiful UI widgets. I think it's perfect for solo development or small teams. I didn't like React Native. It felt heavy to me and rigid. Framework7 allows the use of #CSS3, which I think is the best technology to come out of the #WWW movement. No other tech has been able to allow designers and developers to develop such flexible, high performance, customisable user interface elements that are highly responsive and hardware accelerated before. Now #CSS3 includes variables and flexboxes it is truly a powerful language and there is no longer a need for preprocessors such as #SCSS / #Sass / #less. React Native contains a very limited interpretation of #CSS3 which I found very frustrating after using #CSS3 for some years already and knowing its powerful features. The other very nice feature of Framework7 is that you can even build for the browser if you want your app to be available for desktop web browsers. The latest release also includes the ability to build for #Electron so you can have MacOS, Windows and Linux desktop apps. This is not possible with React Native yet.

          Framework7 runs on top of Apache Cordova. Cordova and webviews have been slated as being slow in the past. Having a game developer background I found the tweeks to make it run as smooth as silk. One of those tweeks is to use WKWebView. Another important one was using srcset on images.

          I use #Template7 for the for the templating system which is a no-nonsense mobile-centric #HandleBars style extensible templating system. It's easy to write custom helpers for, is fast and has a small footprint. I'm not forced into a new paradigm or learning some new syntax. It operates with standard JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS 3. It's written by the developer of Framework7 and so dovetails with it as expected.

          I configured TypeScript to work with the latest version of Framework7. I consider TypeScript to be one of the best creations to come out of Microsoft in some time. They must have an amazing team working on it. It's very powerful and flexible. It helps you catch a lot of bugs and also provides code completion in supporting IDEs. So for my IDE I use Visual Studio Code which is a blazingly fast and silky smooth editor that integrates seamlessly with TypeScript for the ultimate type checking setup (both products are produced by Microsoft).

          I use Webpack and Babel to compile the JavaScript. TypeScript can compile to JavaScript directly but Babel offers a few more options and polyfills so you can use the latest (and even prerelease) JavaScript features today and compile to be backwards compatible with virtually any browser. My favorite recent addition is "optional chaining" which greatly simplifies and increases readability of a number of sections of my code dealing with getting and setting data in nested objects.

          I use some Ruby scripts to process images with ImageMagick and pngquant to optimise for size and even auto insert responsive image code into the HTML5. Ruby is the ultimate cross platform scripting language. Even as your scripts become large, Ruby allows you to refactor your code easily and make it Object Oriented if necessary. I find it the quickest and easiest way to maintain certain aspects of my build process.

          For the user interface design and prototyping I use Figma. Figma has an almost identical user interface to #Sketch but has the added advantage of being cross platform (MacOS and Windows). Its real-time collaboration features are outstanding and I use them a often as I work mostly on remote projects. Clients can collaborate in real-time and see changes I make as I make them. The clickable prototyping features in Figma are also very well designed and mean I can send clickable prototypes to clients to try user interface updates as they are made and get immediate feedback. I'm currently also evaluating the latest version of #AdobeXD as an alternative to Figma as it has the very cool auto-animate feature. It doesn't have real-time collaboration yet, but I heard it is proposed for 2019.

          For the UI icons I use Font Awesome Pro. They have the largest selection and best looking icons you can find on the internet with several variations in styles so you can find most of the icons you want for standard projects.

          For the backend I was using the #GraphCool Framework. As I later found out, #GraphQL still has some way to go in order to provide the full power of a mature graph query language so later in my project I ripped out #GraphCool and replaced it with CouchDB and Pouchdb. Primarily so I could provide good offline app support. CouchDB with Pouchdb is very flexible and efficient combination and overcomes some of the restrictions I found in #GraphQL and hence #GraphCool also. The most impressive and important feature of CouchDB is its replication. You can configure it in various ways for backups, fault tolerance, caching or conditional merging of databases. CouchDB and Pouchdb even supports storing, retrieving and serving binary or image data or other mime types. This removes a level of complexity usually present in database implementations where binary or image data is usually referenced through an #HTML5 link. With CouchDB and Pouchdb apps can operate offline and sync later, very efficiently, when the network connection is good.

          I use PhoneGap when testing the app. It auto-reloads your app when its code is changed and you can also install it on Android phones to preview your app instantly. iOS is a bit more tricky cause of Apple's policies so it's not available on the App Store, but you can build it and install it yourself to your device.

          So that's my latest mobile stack. What tools do you use? Have you tried these ones?

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            Large community
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            Open source
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            Easy deployment
          • 487
            Great frameworks
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            The best glue on the web
          • 235
            Continual improvements
          • 185
            Good old web
          • 145
            Web foundation
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            Community packages
          • 125
            Tool support
          • 35
            Used by wordpress
          • 34
            Excellent documentation
          • 29
            Used by Facebook
          • 23
            Because of Symfony
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            Dynamic Language
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            Cheap hosting
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            Easy to learn
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            Awesome Language and easy to implement
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            Very powerful web language
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            Fast development
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            Composer
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            Because of Laravel
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            Flexibility, syntax, extensibility
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            Easiest deployment
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            Readable Code
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            Fast
          • 7
            Most of the web uses it
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            Fastestest Time to Version 1.0 Deployments
          • 7
            Worst popularity quality ratio
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            Short development lead times
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            Faster then ever
          • 5
            Open source and large community
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            Simple, flexible yet Scalable
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            Open source and great framework
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            Large community, easy setup, easy deployment, framework
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            I have no choice :(
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            Has the best ecommerce(Magento,Prestashop,Opencart,etc)
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            Is like one zip of air
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            Easy to use and learn
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            Cheap to own
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            Easy to learn, a big community, lot of frameworks
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            Great developer experience
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            Hard not to use
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            Safe the planet
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            Fault tolerance
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            Walk away
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            Great flexibility. From fast prototyping to large apps
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            Interpreted at the run time
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            FFI
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            Secure
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            Bando
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            It can get you a lamborghini
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            Simplesaml
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            Secure
          CONS OF PHP
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            So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find
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            Inconsistent API
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            Fragmented community
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            Not secure
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            No routing system
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          SVP, Engineering at Fastly · | 46 upvotes · 3.2M views

          When I joined NYT there was already broad dissatisfaction with the LAMP (Linux Apache HTTP Server MySQL PHP) Stack and the front end framework, in particular. So, I wasn't passing judgment on it. I mean, LAMP's fine, you can do good work in LAMP. It's a little dated at this point, but it's not ... I didn't want to rip it out for its own sake, but everyone else was like, "We don't like this, it's really inflexible." And I remember from being outside the company when that was called MIT FIVE when it had launched. And been observing it from the outside, and I was like, you guys took so long to do that and you did it so carefully, and yet you're not happy with your decisions. Why is that? That was more the impetus. If we're going to do this again, how are we going to do it in a way that we're gonna get a better result?

          So we're moving quickly away from LAMP, I would say. So, right now, the new front end is React based and using Apollo. And we've been in a long, protracted, gradual rollout of the core experiences.

          React is now talking to GraphQL as a primary API. There's a Node.js back end, to the front end, which is mainly for server-side rendering, as well.

          Behind there, the main repository for the GraphQL server is a big table repository, that we call Bodega because it's a convenience store. And that reads off of a Kafka pipeline.

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          Our whole Node.js backend stack consists of the following tools:

          • Lerna as a tool for multi package and multi repository management
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          • NestJS as Node.js framework
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          The main reason we have chosen Node.js over PHP is related to the following artifacts:

          • Made for the web and widely in use: Node.js is a software platform for developing server-side network services. Well-known projects that rely on Node.js include the blogging software Ghost, the project management tool Trello and the operating system WebOS. Node.js requires the JavaScript runtime environment V8, which was specially developed by Google for the popular Chrome browser. This guarantees a very resource-saving architecture, which qualifies Node.js especially for the operation of a web server. Ryan Dahl, the developer of Node.js, released the first stable version on May 27, 2009. He developed Node.js out of dissatisfaction with the possibilities that JavaScript offered at the time. The basic functionality of Node.js has been mapped with JavaScript since the first version, which can be expanded with a large number of different modules. The current package managers (npm or Yarn) for Node.js know more than 1,000,000 of these modules.
          • Fast server-side solutions: Node.js adopts the JavaScript "event-loop" to create non-blocking I/O applications that conveniently serve simultaneous events. With the standard available asynchronous processing within JavaScript/TypeScript, highly scalable, server-side solutions can be realized. The efficient use of the CPU and the RAM is maximized and more simultaneous requests can be processed than with conventional multi-thread servers.
          • A language along the entire stack: Widely used frameworks such as React or AngularJS or Vue.js, which we prefer, are written in JavaScript/TypeScript. If Node.js is now used on the server side, you can use all the advantages of a uniform script language throughout the entire application development. The same language in the back- and frontend simplifies the maintenance of the application and also the coordination within the development team.
          • Flexibility: Node.js sets very few strict dependencies, rules and guidelines and thus grants a high degree of flexibility in application development. There are no strict conventions so that the appropriate architecture, design structures, modules and features can be freely selected for the development.
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