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Indeed, Node.js is a thin FFI wrapper on top of lots of C (and C++) code that does all the heavy lifting, but it is still useful. I think Woo is useful the same

• aikah 12y ago
  the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Every node user knows the net lib nodejs uses isnt written in javascript.And most also know that in order for node to be useful,scripts should do as little as possible and delegate any serious operation to C/C++.
  • eudox 12y ago
    >the title implies "the heavy lifting" is written in LISP. Woo uses fast-http[0], quri[1], and http-body[2], all written in pure Common Lisp and very, very fast. [0]: https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http https://github.com/fukamachi/fast-http [1]: https://github.com/fukamachi/quri https://github.com/fukamachi/quri [2]: https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body https://github.com/fukamachi/http-body