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First, thank you for your work. I must admit though I was hoping that the rewrite would be in Go (or Rust) for the simple use case of a dead-simple binary deplo

First, thank you for your work. I must admit though I was hoping that the rewrite would be in Go (or Rust) for the simple use case of a dead-simple binary deploy with a built in sqlite or rocks/level database that can handle as many users as you can throw at it on a $2-5 VPS instance.

joshuahaglund 4y ago
There's a Docker image for Moncica which seems pretty dead-simple https://github.com/monicahq/docker https://github.com/monicahq/docker
- robinhood 4y ago
  As a matter of fact, Monica has an official Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/_/monica https://hub.docker.com/_/monica (I'm super proud to say that we have an official Docker image, official being the label the Docker granted us last year as they (Docker, the company) maintain it. There are not a lot of official Docker images, but we are part of it, and it's awesome)
robinhood 4y ago
In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.
- rtheunissen 4y ago
  I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.
  - ocdtrekkie 4y ago
    I've been exploring doing some of my PHP stuff in Go and my opinion has been the complete opposite. PHP, I can just start composing a page; Go, I have to implement a router and serving static content.
    - dotancohen 4y ago
      The Monica dev mentioned Laravel in this thread. In Laravel, one also must start with defining a router.
- herbst 4y ago
  This is only true if you have a LAMP server already. On none of my servers runs PHP, so setting that up would be definitly more work than adding another binary to my systemd.
  - selfhoster11 4y ago
    How so? If you use Docker, there are all-in-one images. If you use conventional deployment, there are howto guides and/or meta packages to get things up and running. Besides, a lot of people use shared hosting for any number of reasons. Anything not PHP based is doomed there.

joshuahaglund 4y ago

There's a Docker image for Moncica which seems pretty dead-simple https://github.com/monicahq/docker https://github.com/monicahq/docker

robinhood 4y ago
As a matter of fact, Monica has an official Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/_/monica https://hub.docker.com/_/monica (I'm super proud to say that we have an official Docker image, official being the label the Docker granted us last year as they (Docker, the company) maintain it. There are not a lot of official Docker images, but we are part of it, and it's awesome)

robinhood 4y ago

In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.

rtheunissen 4y ago
I've been using PHP for a decade and recently started building APIs in Go. Everything about the process has been significantly simpler, from packages to testing to deploying and debugging. I don't think I can ever go back, and this is coming from someone who still loves PHP and works with both Go and Laravel daily.
- ocdtrekkie 4y ago
  I've been exploring doing some of my PHP stuff in Go and my opinion has been the complete opposite. PHP, I can just start composing a page; Go, I have to implement a router and serving static content.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    The Monica dev mentioned Laravel in this thread. In Laravel, one also must start with defining a router.
herbst 4y ago
This is only true if you have a LAMP server already. On none of my servers runs PHP, so setting that up would be definitly more work than adding another binary to my systemd.
- selfhoster11 4y ago
  How so? If you use Docker, there are all-in-one images. If you use conventional deployment, there are howto guides and/or meta packages to get things up and running. Besides, a lot of people use shared hosting for any number of reasons. Anything not PHP based is doomed there.