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What do you propose as an alternative? Something like Micronaut trades more compile time for stricter checks and faster runtime. Do you use something like tha

What do you propose as an alternative? Something like Micronaut trades more compile time for stricter checks and faster runtime. Do you use something like that?

sea-gold 3y ago
I really like http4k. http4k[0] is a lightweight but fully-featured HTTP toolkit written in pure Kotlin that enables the serving and consuming of HTTP services in a functional and consistent way. http4k consists of a lightweight core library, http4k-core, providing a base HTTP implementation and Server/Client implementations based on the JDK classes. Further servers, clients, serverless, templating, websockets capabilities are then implemented in add-on modules. http4k apps can be simply mounted into a running Server, Serverless platform, or compiled to GraalVM and run as a super-lightweight binary. Apart the from Kotlin StdLib, http4k-core module has ZERO dependencies and weighs in at ~1mb. Add-on modules only have dependencies required for specific implementation. [0] https://www.http4k.org/documentation/ https://www.http4k.org/documentation/
- RamblingCTO 3y ago
  Sounds nice, I'll have a look! Cheers
RamblingCTO 3y ago
I implemented a microservice with micronaut starting 3,5 years back. The fragility of krush/exposed is not very fun tho. we introduce another hurdle because we only use Kotlin. I'm open for ideas though. PS: we replaced/will replace all microservices with Go.
- wing-_-nuts 3y ago
  Hah, yeah, we have a number of microservices implemented with golang. As 'clunky' as the language can feel sometimes the tooling is first class.
  - RamblingCTO 3y ago
    Absolutely! I love how fast it is and how easy it is to write stuff real fast. Not a lot of footguns, except the pointer-for-loop thing afaik. It does feel clunky and quite manual sometimes!
    - kaba0 3y ago
      The whole language is a footgun..
      - hooverd 3y ago
        Casual Go user here, could you elaborate?
        wing-_-nuts 3y ago
        I wouldn't say it rises to the level of 'footgun' but golang's error handling feels kind of janky coming from other languages.

What do you propose as an alternative? Something like Micronaut trades more compile time for stricter checks and faster runtime. Do you use something like that?

sea-gold 3y ago

I really like http4k. http4k[0] is a lightweight but fully-featured HTTP toolkit written in pure Kotlin that enables the serving and consuming of HTTP services in a functional and consistent way. http4k consists of a lightweight core library, http4k-core, providing a base HTTP implementation and Server/Client implementations based on the JDK classes. Further servers, clients, serverless, templating, websockets capabilities are then implemented in add-on modules. http4k apps can be simply mounted into a running Server, Serverless platform, or compiled to GraalVM and run as a super-lightweight binary. Apart the from Kotlin StdLib, http4k-core module has ZERO dependencies and weighs in at ~1mb. Add-on modules only have dependencies required for specific implementation. [0] https://www.http4k.org/documentation/ https://www.http4k.org/documentation/

RamblingCTO 3y ago
Sounds nice, I'll have a look! Cheers

RamblingCTO 3y ago

I implemented a microservice with micronaut starting 3,5 years back. The fragility of krush/exposed is not very fun tho. we introduce another hurdle because we only use Kotlin. I'm open for ideas though. PS: we replaced/will replace all microservices with Go.

wing-_-nuts 3y ago
Hah, yeah, we have a number of microservices implemented with golang. As 'clunky' as the language can feel sometimes the tooling is first class.
- RamblingCTO 3y ago
  Absolutely! I love how fast it is and how easy it is to write stuff real fast. Not a lot of footguns, except the pointer-for-loop thing afaik. It does feel clunky and quite manual sometimes!
  - kaba0 3y ago
    The whole language is a footgun..
    - hooverd 3y ago
      Casual Go user here, could you elaborate?
      - wing-_-nuts 3y ago
        I wouldn't say it rises to the level of 'footgun' but golang's error handling feels kind of janky coming from other languages.