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Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure

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141 points winkywooster | 2 comments | 30 Apr 24 18:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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metadat ◴[30 Apr 24 21:50 UTC] No.40216826[source]▶
> Rama can build end-to-end backends at any scale on its own in a tiny fraction of the code. At its core is a new programming language implementing a new programming paradigm..

Grand claims, but where are the super powerful demo apps? The getting started docs are a trickle of info..

https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/operating-rama.html#_access...

The "demo gallery" has a few cherry picked examples, but I don't see how this fulfills the claim of a "new paradigm". I wanted to be blown.. but this ain't it.

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/rama-demo-gallery

Oof.

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nathanmarz ◴[30 Apr 24 21:53 UTC] No.40216866[source]▶
Check out twitter-scale-mastodon, which is an implementation of Mastodon's backend from scratch that scales to Twitter scale. It's more than 40% less code than Mastodon's backend and 100x less code than Twitter wrote to build the equivalent.

https://github.com/redplanetlabs/twitter-scale-mastodon

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...

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1. metadat ◴[30 Apr 24 21:58 UTC] No.40216928[source]▶
> Running on a real cluster

> Until Rama is publicly available, the only way to get access to the full Rama release is by applying to our private beta.

I thought it was coming out last August? What happened?

(As per your link, https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...)

Edit: @nathanmarz that's cool you have enough interest to keep things moving with it being private. I'm only interested in open solutions for this domain, though. IMO, accepting lock-in is a lot to ask. Best wishes ~ MD

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2. nathanmarz ◴[30 Apr 24 22:01 UTC] No.40216953[source]▶
We released the public build last August, which can be used to experiment with Rama. Details on that are at the link below. Otherwise, we're still in private beta and access to the full Rama release to run real clusters is just for private beta users.

https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/downloads-maven-local-dev.h...