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It's funny to me; when I got my first taste of "web apps" it was writing c apps to process cgi requests a bazillion years ago. It is neat to see people advocati

It's funny to me; when I got my first taste of "web apps" it was writing c apps to process cgi requests a bazillion years ago. It is neat to see people advocating for native compiled code in this area. I do lots of node these days and full stack so I appreciate the client side leaning for routing and rendering. If you don't need SSR then I'm sure you could create a very performant server in rust or c. Sounds fun!

steveklabnik 10y ago
SSR?
- lasfter 10y ago
  My guess is Server Side Routing.
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- kevan 10y ago
  Server Side Rendering
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- steveklabnik 10y ago
  Ah ha, thanks both! Rust web frameworks can absolutely do server-side rendering, there's multiple template engines, even.
lacampbell 10y ago
I sometimes toy with the idea of using fastCGI C++14 scripts for a RESTful JSON service, to be able to handle a lot of requests on not much hardware. Though maybe spending a lot of time shaving 10's of dollars on your monthly VPS bill is not a fantastic use of your time :D
- flukus 10y ago
  There are some c and c++ web frameworks floating around that seem quite nice.
sedachv 10y ago
Web programming in C and CGI is alive and well: http://www.learnbchs.org/tools.html http://www.learnbchs.org/tools.html (mirror: https://archive.is/d1BXC https://archive.is/d1BXC) http://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2016 http://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2016
qwertyuiop924 10y ago
CGI and compiled Scheme, over here. If you write some fairly simple wrapper functions, you can get an almost sinatra-like API: very nice to work with.
- lacampbell 10y ago
  Can you share anything more? I'm very interested. Chicken Scheme?
  - qwertyuiop924 10y ago
    Yes, CHICKEN Scheme. Although I imagine Gambit would work equally well. I have ~3/4 of a single-file CGI framework on my hard drive. It's feature complete: the other 1/4 is just some optimizations and sugar over GET and POST handling, as they are by far the most common methods used. In the future, I might add some wrappers over access of CGI environment vars, but you can already look those up by hand, using the standard environment access routines.

steveklabnik 10y ago

SSR?

lasfter 10y ago
My guess is Server Side Routing.
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kevan 10y ago
Server Side Rendering
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steveklabnik 10y ago
Ah ha, thanks both! Rust web frameworks can absolutely do server-side rendering, there's multiple template engines, even.

lacampbell 10y ago

I sometimes toy with the idea of using fastCGI C++14 scripts for a RESTful JSON service, to be able to handle a lot of requests on not much hardware. Though maybe spending a lot of time shaving 10's of dollars on your monthly VPS bill is not a fantastic use of your time :D

flukus 10y ago
There are some c and c++ web frameworks floating around that seem quite nice.

sedachv 10y ago

Web programming in C and CGI is alive and well: http://www.learnbchs.org/tools.html http://www.learnbchs.org/tools.html (mirror: https://archive.is/d1BXC https://archive.is/d1BXC) http://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2016 http://kristaps.bsd.lv/absdcon2016

qwertyuiop924 10y ago

CGI and compiled Scheme, over here. If you write some fairly simple wrapper functions, you can get an almost sinatra-like API: very nice to work with.

lacampbell 10y ago
Can you share anything more? I'm very interested. Chicken Scheme?
- qwertyuiop924 10y ago
  Yes, CHICKEN Scheme. Although I imagine Gambit would work equally well. I have ~3/4 of a single-file CGI framework on my hard drive. It's feature complete: the other 1/4 is just some optimizations and sugar over GET and POST handling, as they are by far the most common methods used. In the future, I might add some wrappers over access of CGI environment vars, but you can already look those up by hand, using the standard environment access routines.