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Wekan is an open-source kanban board (Trello like) which allows a card-based task and to-do management.

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Meteor alternatives?

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 11, 2019 at 3:00pm

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

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

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      It's just crazy

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        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.

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          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.

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

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

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                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

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                  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

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                    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/

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                      And try to get fixes to it immediately as they happen

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                        Python going to Python 3.x is the same

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                          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

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                            Rust is same, each big company has their own build systems https://gist.github.com/rylev/0e3c3895dcb40b6a1c1cf8c427c01b5e

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                              Does this need to be "move fast and break things" ?

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                                Yes it's also about libraries that each programming language has

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                                  Go has a lot of libraries available, and Go syntax changes less than other programming languages

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                                    Although I would think most likely FreePascal syntax

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                                      changes less

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                                        than Go syntax

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                                          Although, a lot changes on Javascript also all the time

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                                            Only constant is the change

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                                              So I don't know is it any different

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                                                It's like, Yes I have thinked a lot how to rewrite Wekan. And still I have no idea is it possible at all.

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