BuGlessRB · HackerTrans

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I'd call that a feature.

I hate the ambiguity that semicolon-less Javascript creates (a newline in the wrong spot, and your code starts to misbehave).

BuGlessRB

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Well, I concur; back in the days, I have created quite a few websites with business logic in RXML.

I'd think that both RXML and its Javascript based successor Remixml are both Turing complete and can be used as generic programming languages (within reason). Which is not to say that creating complicated applications in those languages is a good idea.

BuGlessRB

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I have several active implementations now (in active use for the past 2 years), I guess I could easily water some of those down into a few examples.

With regard to similar systems... Good question. Comparable solutions:

- Ruby Passenger daemon. Almost feature parity with the Enterprise version, except for the "cool robot logo".

- Python Flask framework.

- Apache with mod_php or php-fpm.

- Roxen.

With respect to procmail, yes, indeed, and I picked up its maintenance again, and released a new version recently.

BuGlessRB

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Another related note, I created Remixml, a descendant of RXML in Roxen, but now Javascript based (client side or NodeJS):

https://www.npmjs.com/package/remixml

BuGlessRB

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On a related note, I have created the SPike daemon: git://devel2.cuci.nl/spike .

It's written in Pike, is being actively maintained, with roughly the following featureset:

- Meaningful error messages on compiled modules.

- Smart auto-recompilation of modules (mtime based).

- Auto-fallback to last-known-good modules on compilation failure.

- Two classes for module development: Spike.Base and Spike.Site

  + Spike.Base implements a log() and listenport() primitive.

  + Spike.Site adds filesystems, databasepools and a configuration system
    per site.

- Live configuration reload through SIGHUP (no downtime).

- Integrated HTTP and WebSocket dispatch engine.

- Transparent proxy support.

- Auto-gzip compression on both static and dynamic content.

- Integrated and configurable logging mechanism to syslog.

- Completely Shuffler-ised (maximal offloading of communication overhead to pure C and the kernel).

- Less filling: 29KB of source code (single file).

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