Re: [dev] [ANN] CGD - Ultra-minimalist HTTP and FastCGI wrapper for CGI programs.

From: Džen <yvldwt_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:22:45 +0200

I get your point, but this isn't about writing a web server from scratch
like nginx is. The http libs of Go provide enough to write a small server
for a website like suckless.org or similar, of course not as sophisticated
as nginx is.

On Friday, September 21, 2012, Kurt H Maier wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:50:14PM +0200, Džen wrote:
> > What's the reason behind using nginx anyway? I guess it would be simpler
> to
> > write an own http web server with go's http lib. Or am I wrong?
>
> Yes sure it's absolutely simpler to design, write, and test your own
> public-facing network service from scratch than it would be to deploy a
> well-tested and well-understood performant, secure server that has
> already been packaged for several popular operating systems.
>
> So much simpler.
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 21 2012 - 13:22:45 CEST