I enjoy Elixir a lot but it feels like a tool designed for a whole different purpose. I don’t really know what that purpose it. It’s possible that my brain is just not well organized for the way elixir is laid out, but Crystal is so fluid with my brain.
A .war file is a Web Application Resource file. It’s a modification of a Jar file which is meant for easy deployment to Java servers.
Anyways the answer is, Crystal can be statically compiled in most circumstances. Last I checked OpenSSL was one of the exceptions, but it’s been a year or more since.
Amber packs all the static assets into the binary, Lucky doesn’t. I would doubt that Marten does. If not, you get your app server in one binary and the front end assets get deployed separately.
Regarding ruby debugging, byebug and pry have been the two approaches for a long time. Pry is a fancy line editor and doesn’t come with a true debugger, but it can be augmented with one. Byebug has full debugging but the interface is a bit archaic. Both work fine with Rails.
Interactive debugging with Crystal is still a bit of a pain, but LLDB works with a little fiddling.
> the top post on hn right now: The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
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