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Meteor alternatives?

Wekan/General · June 20, 2019 at 2:53am

Meteor alternatives?

Wekan / General · June 20, 2019 at 2:53am

Hey guys, I built an Open Source app in Meteor a while ago (it actually had Kanban functionality as well, funnily enough), but as we all know Meteor is showing it's age and the community seems to now be non-existent.

What tech stack would you guys recommend as a modern alternative to Meteor? Any plans for Wekan to migrate to something else?

I really would love to not have to start from scratch on my project, but I don't really think I have a choice anymore with Meteor. Between the memory consumption and build sizes, it's just no longer a feasible option.

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September 4, 2019 at 8:30am

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

8:30am

@road42 backend portable? What do you mean?

8:31am

@road42 Are you trying to do frontend without Javascript? How do you do drag and drop?

8:31am

@road42 Yes I'm very interested in any progress you can make with rewrite

September 11, 2019 at 2:56pm

Lauri Ojansivu@xet7

Team

2:56pm

Oops, there is writing on the wall, Node.js v10 has dropped 32bit Linux https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/10527

2:57pm

It's so crazy to drop some support

2:57pm

I would prefer to add more Wekan platforms

2:59pm

Go is also bad https://golang.org/doc/go1.13 "Darwin: As announced in the Go 1.12 release notes, Go 1.13 now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later; support for previous versions has been discontinued."

3:00pm

It's like, some hardware can not run newer operating systems

3:00pm

Like newest Windows 10 does not run on all hardware that previous Windows 10 did

3:00pm

It's just crazy

3:02pm

I'm currently looking at FreePascal and Lazarus. Newest FreePascal https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2 has added support for Amiga and Windows 3.0 and newer.

3:03pm

I would like to run Wekan on all of my hardware. On current so much hardware and software is obsoleted at crazy speeds. Talk about electrical waste.

3:05pm

Other alternative is Haxe, because it can compile to many other programming languages, for example Lua, that is available for Amiga.

3:06pm

In Haxe case if some programming language shoots itself into foot, I could compile to some other programming language.

3:08pm

Although currently Haxe 4.0 beta is in heavy development, there is some breaking changes so that some haxetink https://haxetink.github.io libraries do not work, and those breaking changes are such that currently they are impossible to abstract over, it needs some fixes

3:09pm

They are just thinking of it as a sport to install always latest Haxe nightly and latest git version and fix things in the fly as they come

3:11pm

It's the same as do Ruby on Rails users, they follow current git version https://github.blog/2019-09-09-running-github-on-rails-6-0/

3:11pm

And try to get fixes to it immediately as they happen

3:12pm

Python going to Python 3.x is the same

3:14pm

Nim https://nim-lang.org/ also, I do like Nim Forum software that is Nim+SQLite https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum but it does not compile anymore with newest Nim