matt42

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   by matt42 12y ago

   Thanks Dang, I misunderstood the Show HN principles. I won't use it for the next Silicon updates.
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   by matt42 12y ago

   I also think that with async/await probably coming with the next c++ standard, we will be able to write much simpler async code in plain C++, without Asio.
3. 123.▲
   by matt42 12y ago

   Thanks. I would be happy to hear your feedback: what was nice, what feature/documentation is missing, what should be improved, etc...
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   by matt42 12y ago

   Ok. My mystake was to post two Show HN: One for the git repository, one for the documentation.
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   by matt42 12y ago

   I hope the HN staff will read this message and figure out what happened...
6. 126.▲
   by matt42 12y ago

   Could we know why this post has been banned from the frontpage? Thanks, Matt
7. 127.▲
   by matt42 12y ago

   My previous post was a link to the github repository. This post is about the new documentation website which gives much information about the framework.
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   by matt42 12y ago

   Yes. I already started to read the examples. They are a bit hard to digest but I will definitely take the time to implement a libh2o backend with HTTP/2 support.
9. 129.▲
   by matt42 12y ago

   There are already several C implementations of HTTP 2. And it should not take too long to wrap them in a silicon backend.
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    by matt42 12y ago

    libuv could be one of the futur backends yes. But with microhttpd silicon is able to handle more req/s that most other web frameworks. I am more focused on stabilizing the code base, documentation, and adding support for other database
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Wt is more focused on providing Qt-like widget of building interfaces server side. Silicon does have any tool to build html pages. It lets the client do the rendering. Crow is a more similar to silicon. But silicon has several advantages:
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    by matt42 12y ago

    I agree with your point. We are still at a "prehistoric" age in the development of C++ web servers. All those high level tasks where hard in C++98. But C++11 and C++14 really helps high level programming. Silicon demonstrates that
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    Spurious Correlations(tylervigen.com)

    3 points by matt42 12y ago|0 comments
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Author here. If you have questions or suggestions, please post them here.
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    Silicon C++14 Web Framework Documentation(siliconframework.org)

    49 points by matt42 12y ago|28 comments
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Thanks for you feedback. The @ is just a convenient syntaxic sugar. I will explain in the README how to use silicon with plain C++ code.
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    by matt42 12y ago

    The perf depends on the backend. However the overhead of the framework is almost 0. I'll publish the benchmark but with microhttpd I was able to serve 280k req/second with the hello work example and a 4 cores I5 processor
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Thanks for your enthusiasm, you can post your questions here. The project is still young and not funded so I do not have much time to write a comprehensive doc, but I'll do my best. What do you mean by Api layer for raw data?
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    by matt42 12y ago

    I'll write more about it later, but silicon actually has a nice way to deal with databases. It currently only support sqlite, but it has: - a sqlite middleware: See the example here: https://github.com/matt-42/sili
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Even if it not clear in the readme. The preprocessor is optional. I posted the plain c++ version of the hello_word example here: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/issues/2#issuecomment-705... I will add a no
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    by matt42 12y ago

    #define S(name) is a bit dangerous. It would affect any C/C++ function called S.
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Here is the tranformation done by the preprocessor: https://gist.github.com/matt-42/a53cc0b0a8d8f1cf673f It would be really convenient to have it done by the C preprocessor, but it seems impossible to me to get it with
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Indeed, Silicon should be seen as a glue between low level http libraries, a message encoding format, others externals resources like databases, and your actual API. You can use it with microhttpd, or any other network libraries (the curren
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    by matt42 12y ago

    I guess you meant that C++ is verbose.. But silicon is designed such that you do not write more lines than you would in Go, Nodejs or Ruby frameworks.
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    by matt42 12y ago

    You are right. I'll make it clear in the README. The preprocessing can be easy done by hand for those who want to skip the use of the preprocessor, it is actually pretty simple: [...] @test [...] is equivalent to: iod_define_symbol(tes
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    by matt42 12y ago

    Nice idea. I probably do so after I fix the first batch of issues.
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    by matt42 12y ago

    It is not part of C++14, it is a small syntaxic sugar that compiles to iod symbols. A compiler convert it to plain C++. In short, their are empty objects holding a unique C++ type. More info here: https://github.com/matt-42&
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    Show HN: The Silicon C++14 Web Framework(github.com)

    140 points by matt42 12y ago|37 comments
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    Using Crosswalk in Chrome Apps for Mobile(github.com)

    2 points by matt42 12y ago|0 comments
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    Intel Releases Broadwell-U: New SKUs, Up to 48 EUs and Iris 6100(anandtech.com)

    1 points by matt42 12y ago|0 comments