Hi o/ Hopefully the goal of CIEL is well explained. I use it daily (with the core image, in my editor), I ship products with it. It saves me a load of time, when I start a new project, when I need to interact with the outside world, when I want to write a little something and ship it on the server without Python's mess, etc. Speaking of which, Django is of course difficult to replace, but I started an automatic DB dashboard for CRUD operations, something's on the way (unreleased).
I integrated CL step by step for my clients' work, and CIEL is another means to this end. To use CL, for real. None of my projects need CL's superpowers, but I want them for development, deployment and monitoring!
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Today I fixed a few issues and released a v0.2: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/releases/tag/v02 The key point is that CIEL should be much easier to install, specially on Mac. We now rely on many less system dependencies.
If you find out that CIEL is still difficult to install on your platform, don't hesitate to send details on an issue. Thanks in advance.
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TLDR; May CIEL ease and soften your CL journey.
ps: you have no idea how much time it took me to discover certain things! Now you have them here, ready, packaged :-]