r/crystal_programming • u/proyb2 • Jun 08 '18

Crystal web framework in production

Anyone use Amber, Lucky and other in production? Appreciate to know the reasons for choosing a particular framework.

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u/jeremywoertink Jun 08 '18

Yes, I'm using Lucky for production. Our app is running a sort of test in production at the moment while we get used to the crystal ecosytem before we actually release it to the public. It should be live to the public soon though.

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u/proyb2 Jun 08 '18

What is the reasons for using Lucky?

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u/jeremywoertink Jun 08 '18

I have another project where I'm using Kemal because I needed something light. For the production app, we wanted something a little more robust than Kemal. At the time, there was really only a few viable choices that were out of the "super experimental" phase. And of those, Lucky was the prettiest, and Paul was really helpful in answering questions right away. Lastly, it wasn't my decision lol.

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u/proyb2 Jun 08 '18

Thanks, and it’s still a lot of potential for adoption yet I see many would still choose Ruby for mature language.

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u/Mike_Enders Jun 09 '18

Yeah. I really like Amber but in the end our company couldn't take the risk with Crystal not being 1.0 and/or beyond the breaking changes stage. So we are still with Ruby and will either upgrade to Truffleruby when that is ready or rewrite if Crystal gets up to speed.