Before nginx was a thing, I worked with a guy who forked apache httpd and wrote this blog in C, like, literally embedded html and css inside the server, so when he made a tpyo or was adding another post he had to recompile the source code. The performance was out of this world.

[–] justJanne@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah, you met fefe.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Fefe uses a LDAP server as backend, not Apache

[–] zaphod@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

He uses his own http server called gatling and an LDAP server instead of a database.

[–] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of solutions like that in rust. You basically compile the template into your code.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

yeah, templates can be parsed at compile time but these frameworks are not embeeding whole fucking prerendered static pages/assets

[–] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Compiling all assets into the binary is trivial in rust. When I have a small web server that generates everything in code I usually compile the favicon into the binary.