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Very interesting. I had no idea Roxen was even a thing. Never heard it mentioned once in the past 20 years of being a linux janitor! Kinda like AOLServer/Navi l
by pram 7y ago
Very interesting. I had no idea Roxen was even a thing. Never heard it mentioned once in the past 20 years of being a linux janitor! Kinda like AOLServer/Navi levels of obscurity.
- randallsquared 7y agoHeh. My first production app was built in Roxen RXML, with a little Pike here and there where RXML’s sluggishness couldn’t be tolerated. By the third version, it was almost entirely Pike.
- em-bee 7y agoyou wouldn't believe what people were capable of writing with RXML. i worked with one company where they wrote a whole ERP system almost all in RXML. it was amazing.
- em-bee 7y agohaving heard of AOLServer, i'd say, that's about right. i discovered it in 1994 when i decided that the ncsa/cern servers were to simplistic. apache wasn't a thing yet. and the first alternative i found was a server written in common lisp. i was put off by the fact that i had to write lisp code to just serve static html files, so i kept searching, and found spinner (the predecessor for roxen) next. it came with an extensive webinterface for server administration and was just a blast to work with.