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SHOW HN2017

96points
28comments
#474of 2,242 in 2017
Top 22%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Performance: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

Objections

  • Cowboy's REST handler or Phoenix already covers this; little reason to choose it

    From 2 comments
    • I'm not sure why you would use this over cowboy's REST handler. Cowboy is the thing that powers Phoenix -- you really can't beat it for concurrent performance. (Loïc of NineNines…
      hlieberman on HN
    • Perhaps in part, yes. But cowboy does have a very powerful REST handler built into it that does a lot of the same things:…
      hlieberman on HN

Requests

  • Comparison with webmachine

    From 1 comment
    • Why no comparison to webmachine? Webmachine has a really robust mapping to the HTTP standard, and sits on top of mochiweb.
      jwatte on HN

Questions

  • How does it compare to Elixir and Phoenix?

    From 1 comment
    • Hows this compare to something like Elixir + Phoenix?
      Exuma on HN

Alternatives named

  • Cowboy

    From 1 comment
    • I'm not sure why you would use this over cowboy's REST handler. Cowboy is the thing that powers Phoenix -- you really can't beat it for concurrent performance. (Loïc of NineNines…
      hlieberman on HN
  • Phoenix

    From 1 comment
    • Hows this compare to something like Elixir + Phoenix?
      Exuma on HN
  • webmachine

    From 1 comment
    • Why no comparison to webmachine? Webmachine has a really robust mapping to the HTTP standard, and sits on top of mochiweb.
      jwatte on HN
  • mochiweb

    From 1 comment
    • I wasn't aware anyone was still maintaining mochiweb, thats actually somewhat comforting to know!
      bfrog on HN

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