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> Sinatra has been copied/emulated in nearly every programming language, and its clones have also been widely successful. I was just thinking about a Sinatra c

> Sinatra has been copied/emulated in nearly every programming language, and its clones have also been widely successful. I was just thinking about a Sinatra clone that works in Crystal, and it turns out that there is one: https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal https://github.com/kemalcr/kemal I love the idea that you can write almost the same code, and get a small web service that runs 100x (?) faster than the Ruby version.

smaili 9y ago
Their Benchmarks section comparing Kemal to Sinatra is quite huge.
- nathan_f77 9y ago
  Oh right, I didn't see that on the homepage: http://kemalcr.com/ http://kemalcr.com/ So 44x faster (100238 / 2274). Not quite 100x, but still very impressive.
  - cutler 9y ago
    That's until you have a significant amount string parsing with regexen in your app. Then Crystal is actually slower than MRI Ruby. Hard to believe for a compiled language but true.