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Interesting that you've made it using

https://crystal-lang.org/ https://www.mint-lang.com/

How did you decide to use these framework and how was your experience ?

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I'm the author of Mint, so it was the obvious choice :)

I choose Crystal because I had experience using Ruby and I absolutely loved the syntax, also Mint is built with Crystal. I really like it because it easy to read (even with type annotations) and compiles to a fast binary.

Edit: If you have specific questions let me have it :D

Not Crystal related but from where do you get the art? ;)

Not OP but google around for vector-style images. There was even a Show HN project that generated them, I'll look around

i'd appreciate a link, i did a basic search on those keywords but didnt find anything matching.

https://undraw.co/ https://www.humaaans.com/

From Mint's docs [0]:

> Record definitions are globally unique, so defining a record with the same structure but a different name will raise an error.

So I can't have both

    record User {
      email : String,
      name : String,
      id : Number
    }

and

    record Task {
      name : String,
      description : String,
      id : Number
    }

in the same project?

[0] https://guide.mint-lang.com/reference/records

You can! One has email field the other has. description field.

One interesting aspect is that it takes a lot of energy building the whole compile-to-js frontend framework, yet you are also building your own service. Kudos!

I'm using Elixir and Elm, and understand why Mint happens. I'm keeping eyes on Mint, would love see a build-with-Mint page. This app is the first one!

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