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Would redbean work for your purpose? It's very lightweight and fun to work with, though not suited for everything. https://redbean.dev https://redbean.dev

• chrsig 4y ago
  Not exaclty -- it looks like it's pretty overkill for my needs I'm looking for something more like websocketpp[0], or even just grpc without a requisite proxy. uWebsockets looks really promising, being header only, but in the fine print requires a runtime library. unfortunately, none of that ecosystem seems to use cmake, making integrating it that much more of a pain. why use cpp for this, I'm sure some HNer will ask. the ray tracer itself is using cuda, that's why. I've also debated - running it as a grpc server and having some proxy in a more web-accessible language - creating python bindings and using python to make a websocket/http server for it neither of those are out of the question, but they're not my first choices, because I'd like to keep the build & execution simple. introducing dependencies, especially other executables, is in conflict with that. i don't need anything particularly scalable -- a threaded implementation, or one using select() would be fine, if not preferable. [0] https://docs.websocketpp.org/ https://docs.websocketpp.org/ [1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets