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This is charming. A microframework in a scant 480 lines of code, plus a postmodern manifesto on historisity -- what's not to love! I can't wait to read the sle

This is charming. A microframework in a scant 480 lines of code, plus a postmodern manifesto on historisity -- what's not to love! I can't wait to read the slew of "Why we switched from <web-framework> to 1991" blog posts.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
Maybe migrating from bashttpd: https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd
- monocasa 8y ago
  Or Cobol on Wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
  - arethuza 8y ago
    I once encountered an actual real live business application that included a web server written in VB6....
    - Cthulhu_ 8y ago
      I can see how that would go; I mean "how to serve static files" is one of the first things that you can learn when doing e.g. NodeJS.
      - arethuza 8y ago
        I never did find out the real reason - I suspect (as it was a relatively small business that had been acquired) that it was because they were too cheap to pay for a server edition of Windows.
    - giancarlostoro 8y ago
      The only sucky things about VB6 was threading wasn't a regular language feature. You could get to it through the WinAPI but that's not organic enough for most VB programmers. One thing I do miss about VB6 is that you didn't need an entire runtime to build a GUI.
      - PopsiclePete 8y ago
        I wouldn’t say that was the only thing...error handling was a mess and I don’t even want to remember what I had to do to make a hash table - there were definitely low level calls to RtlMoveMemory and such.
- nudpiedo 8y ago
  I can see that happening: "the deployment was a piece of cake". What says the project about security? "Only rudimentary input handling. We would not be running this on a public machine." What will the hipsters say? "time to market"
  - qbaqbaqba 8y ago
    Do you know what runs HN?
- tlrobinson 8y ago
  Or https://github.com/tlrobinson/martin.sh https://github.com/tlrobinson/martin.sh
- achillean 8y ago
  Looks like there are a few people actually running it :) https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http+200+server+slash+bin+slash+bash https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http+200+server+slash+bin...
mopeloi 8y ago
As someone with a similarly retro web framework ( https://fortran.io https://fortran.io ), as far as I know, no one has switched to it. I have gotten a few serious inquiries from coders in the sciences or who are making use of their old Fortran skills... but only a very few in two years.

giancarlostoro 8y ago

Maybe migrating from bashttpd: https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd

monocasa 8y ago
Or Cobol on Wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair https://github.com/azac/cobol-on-wheelchair
- arethuza 8y ago
  I once encountered an actual real live business application that included a web server written in VB6....
  - Cthulhu_ 8y ago
    I can see how that would go; I mean "how to serve static files" is one of the first things that you can learn when doing e.g. NodeJS.
    - arethuza 8y ago
      I never did find out the real reason - I suspect (as it was a relatively small business that had been acquired) that it was because they were too cheap to pay for a server edition of Windows.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    The only sucky things about VB6 was threading wasn't a regular language feature. You could get to it through the WinAPI but that's not organic enough for most VB programmers. One thing I do miss about VB6 is that you didn't need an entire runtime to build a GUI.
    - PopsiclePete 8y ago
      I wouldn’t say that was the only thing...error handling was a mess and I don’t even want to remember what I had to do to make a hash table - there were definitely low level calls to RtlMoveMemory and such.
nudpiedo 8y ago
I can see that happening: "the deployment was a piece of cake". What says the project about security? "Only rudimentary input handling. We would not be running this on a public machine." What will the hipsters say? "time to market"
- qbaqbaqba 8y ago
  Do you know what runs HN?
tlrobinson 8y ago
Or https://github.com/tlrobinson/martin.sh https://github.com/tlrobinson/martin.sh
achillean 8y ago
Looks like there are a few people actually running it :) https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http+200+server+slash+bin+slash+bash https://www.shodan.io/search?query=http+200+server+slash+bin...

mopeloi 8y ago

As someone with a similarly retro web framework ( https://fortran.io https://fortran.io ), as far as I know, no one has switched to it. I have gotten a few serious inquiries from coders in the sciences or who are making use of their old Fortran skills... but only a very few in two years.