Emacs webservers have indeed been around for years: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer Most of them required other sol

Emacs webservers have indeed been around for years: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer Most of them required other solutions for accepting the socket however and also failed to address concurrency. Elnode, btw, does reuse Emacs' syntax highlighting code. Just try it out and see what it's like.