0) Yes, this is an issue I confronted early on. Precompilation can take long on small machines, causing setups like Heroku's to kill the app. The solution (which granted should be maybe better documented) is to set the `EARLYBIND` env variable to `true` - this will allow Genie to bind to the port very early so Heroku will love it. (On second thought, maybe this should be the default in production)
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2) I don't understand the issues with auth, db, cookies, sessions, etc? Genie has built in support for handling (encrypted) cookies and sessions and plugins like GenieAuthentication (or GenieAuthorisation) and SearchLight provide straightforward features. Have you used these?
3) Really weird about the 30s update, haven't heard of this from other users. What's your computer configuration if I may ask? Can't comment on vim, I/we use VSCode.
Re deployment: * are you running the app in "prod" environment? * are you serving the assets via a reverse proxy like Nginx/Apache?
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I do agree that using a language and a framework you know and used many times before would have been much quicker to build, but that's the case with all new tech. Besides the learning curve of a new language and a new framework, Genie and Julia are quite young and granted there's a myriad of things that we need to build, invent and develop :-) We enjoy doing it and solving this kind of problems and I'm sorry that unlike us, you had a hard time. Thanks again for sharing your experience and maybe check us out in 1y or so, the ecosystem is maturing fast but some things just take time (Python is 30y old right?).