Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
by sam0x17 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @03:56PM
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I use Amber when I have to do something Rails-like. Maturity wise they are a bit ahead Lucky, and since all I really do is API servers because of my newfound love of SPAs, it gets the job done perfectly.
The language does change now and again, but upgrading has been fairly straightforward thus far, and I manage a number of open source crystal projects in addition to my closed source production code. You always have the option of not upgrading until you are ready, which is more than enough at least for me.
Debugging represents a unique challenge. I plan to eventually write an adapter for sentry.io for error tracking, but I haven't gotten around to this. Amber has very informative crash logs, so thus far I've been OK just looking through my Google App Engine logs when I need to track down an error. Cloud function debugging is a particular pain in the ass because of https://github.com/sam0x17/gcf.cr/issues/1, but I have a feeling the new 0.27.0 release resolves this, I just haven't had a moment to check.
The language does change now and again, but upgrading has been fairly straightforward thus far, and I manage a number of open source crystal projects in addition to my closed source production code. You always have the option of not upgrading until you are ready, which is more than enough at least for me.
Debugging represents a unique challenge. I plan to eventually write an adapter for sentry.io for error tracking, but I haven't gotten around to this. Amber has very informative crash logs, so thus far I've been OK just looking through my Google App Engine logs when I need to track down an error. Cloud function debugging is a particular pain in the ass because of https://github.com/sam0x17/gcf.cr/issues/1, but I have a feeling the new 0.27.0 release resolves this, I just haven't had a moment to check.