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As a data point, this little Racket server — https://github.com/coding-robots/iwl https://github.com/coding-robots/iwl — served millions of requests from late 2
by dchest 10y ago
As a data point, this little Racket server — https://github.com/coding-robots/iwl https://github.com/coding-robots/iwl — served millions of requests from late 2010 until early 2016 (when I switched to Go) without any issues first on a smallest Rackspace Cloud instance, then on a smallest DigitalOcean instance.
- lacampbell 10y agoThanks for the info. Curious - why the re-write if racket performed well enough?
- dchest 10y agoFor no practical reason — actually, for the same reason I rewrote in from the original Python version: I just fell in love with the language (first Racket, then Go). Also, rewriting it in Go helped me understand that my brain is wired for imperative languages, not functional: writing algorithms felt so much easier and more natural in Go. Nevertheless, learning Racket was fun!