[paulcsmith]

I've played around with a number of languages and settled on Crystal because:

* Speed

* Pleasant to use type system

* Doesn't get in my way

* Catches lots of bugs

* Fun!

I wrote http://luckyframework.org/ to write web applications with minimal boilerplate and as few runtime errors as possible. Take a look and let me know what you think

[vram22]

From https://luckyframework.org/guides/installing/

  >To get Lucky, you need to install these first.
  >Install one of these process managers: Overmind (recommended), Heroku CLI (great if you plan to use Heroku to deploy), forego, or foreman.
  >Node. Requires at least v6
  >Yarn
  >Crystal. Requires at least v0.25
  >Postgres (macOS/Others)

Why are those dependencies needed, except Crystal, particularly Node? And does Lucky only work with Postgres?

[paulcsmith]

You can use Lucky without a database, but if you use one, Postgres is the only support database.

You don't need node or yarn if you are using API mode. You can generate an API only app with `lucky init <app-name> --api`

The process manager is used to start the watcher process. You can use Lucky without it by running `lucky watch` instead of `lucky dev`, but using the process manager is nice because you can also run asset compilation, job queues and whatever other processes you app needs to run.

Lucky can be stripped down further still, but the documentation focuses on the more opinionated route

[vram22]

Thanks for the info.

[tvmalsv]

That looks really nice. When I clicked the link, I wasn't expecting a good looking page and all of those docs, it was a nice surprise. I look forward to checking it out :)

[paulcsmith]

I'm glad you were pleasantly surprised. Feel free to hop on https://gitter.im/luckyframework/Lobby if you have any questions or comments!