tusharsoni

> mCaptcha is basically a rate-limiter

This is a much better explanation of what it does than captcha where I expect "proof-of-human". A PoW based rate-limiter is a really interesting idea! Usually, the challenge with unauthenticated endpoints (ex. signups) is that the server has to do more work (db queries) than the client (make an http request) so it is really easy for the client to bring the server down. With PoW, we're essentially flipping that model where the client has to do more work than the server. Good work!

haha yeah, gotta keep the tradition going

Thank you, so much to do in this space! Bud looks great and I see we share many common goals. The dependency injection piece looks interesting. Did you build it custom or integrated an existing solution?

They're on top of my list to add to Copper. As soon as we get sqlite support!

I think that remains a very valid use case. In Copper, you can create one of those with the CLI. For example `copper create -frontend=vite:react github.com/nasa/starship` will create a react app with a JSON backed API ready to go

This is a good observation. One trend I'm noticing is that the "old way" (PHP, Rails, etc.) of doing things is making a comeback. Go is very well positioned for this but lacks the frameworks.

I'm hoping to add something like Phoenix to Copper. It should help with the "heavily API only side" problem. I've already added integrations for Tailwind and added some utilities on top of the templating (going to add more) to fix the lack of good templating.

ha, add me to that list :) I think it's fine if CLIs are optional and I've tried to do that with Copper. Of course, your initial setup will be longer without scaffolding so it's not a great first time developer experience

Code generation is an awesome alternate, I'm more familiar with sqlc.dev. They're doing some really interesting work.

My goal with Copper is to provide out-of-the-box integrations with popular solutions to various problems. For now, I picked GORM but I definitely see adding support for other tools.

Please do! If nothing else, it's definitely a fun language to learn. We're also setting up a community of folks who are learning Go/Copper. Check the project readme link for the link.

It kinda does but there's a lot of boilerplate that goes in before we actually get to the app logic. And, understandably, there's no structure provided by the Go stdlib. Once I made many projects with just using stdlib, I started taking common packages out. And Copper is essentially that. I can start writing my app code with minimal setup / boilerplate.