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Re:BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite by walterbell on Sunday June 18, 2017 @02:35PM (#14582097)
Have you looked at Lua+C and LuaJIT+nginx (CloudFlare, OpenResty)? Work is underway to compile a subset of Perl6 to LuaJIT+nginx.
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Re:BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite by setq on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:16PM (#14582662)
I can't get over the 1 based indexes in Lua, unless that has changed in recent years.
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Re:BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite by walterbell on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:39PM (#14582797)
Still there :) The trade-off is rapid development (interpreted, GC), fast execution (JIT faster than Javascript) and easy interfacing to C libraries.
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Re:BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite by setq on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:28PM (#14583054)
I shall have a try next week and see if I can cope with it :)
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