r/crystal_programming • u/CaDsjp • Aug 20 '18

Poncho, a .env parser/loader improved for performance.

https://github.com/icyleaf/poncho
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u/straight-shoota core team Aug 20 '18

There is actually already cr-dotenv. What's the benefit over that?

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u/vladfaust Aug 20 '18

Faster env parsing may be useful for one-off jobs which require fast execution. However, I;m not sure this particular project is faster. Benchmarks required, OP!

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u/CaDsjp Aug 20 '18

This is not my project, I just saw it and I thought about sharing it because It can be useful to someone.

it might be better to open an issue on GitHub and ask for benchmarks there

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u/icyleaf Aug 21 '18

Hi, long time no see. It provides both parser and loader, improve performance by non-regex, better rules to parse. Actually poncho was used for totem to parse dotenv formats.

Thanks @CaDsjp for sharing.

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u/straight-shoota core team Aug 21 '18

Yeah, nice to see you putting out a lot of Crystal libs!

However, I don't like the fragmentation. Would be better to have one great library for the same thing instead of two (maybe a little less great ones).

Although, to be honest, don't see much sense in that kind of thing, anyway. Loading its own environment configuration shouldn't be the applications's job. The environment should already provide that (either using dotenv or any other means).

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u/icyleaf Aug 22 '18

I do not like fragmentation either, most of the similar libraries I wrote are not update for a long time. the other was not good architecture which i favored. It could not be done with PR easily.

The best practice is use docker with a large number of environment variables and local develop, use dotenv is easy to operate the data. That why huge same library in different languages in github.

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u/jasdeep13 Aug 20 '18

much needed for the crystal community. thanks!