Ask HN: The best language for writing RESTful APIs?

Re:Ask HN: The best language for writing RESTful APIs? by bjourne on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:10PM (#9728722)

> Rails is far too much bloat to just be serving JSON (benchmarks show that sinatra is 4-8x faster...)

Does it matter 1 bit? If you can't demonstrate that it does, you might as well choose the framework with the best mascot and Django's mascot is pretty damn awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: The best language for writing RESTful APIs? by hackerboos on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @09:52PM (#9729711)

Sinatra is faster but enjoy writing the boilerplate.

I'll have my Rails API up in half the time. Why worry about scaling before you have to?

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Re:Ask HN: The best language for writing RESTful APIs? by ianseyer on Friday June 19, 2015 @02:42PM (#9746790)

That sounds awfully like famous last words...

In addition, I would say the mentality of scalability when constructing applications is part and parcel of the design ideology of ruby, but too often far removed from its practice.

I see no reason to prefer Rails API. It is a reverse-frankenstein situation whereby they had the monster, and started removing limbs...

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Re:Ask HN: The best language for writing RESTful APIs? by ianseyer on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:20PM (#9728766)

What? I legitimately did not understand what you just said.

Django, similarly to rails, has far too much bloat and is tediously layed out. An entire rant aside, Django is becoming increasingly unpythonic and more rubylike, imo.

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