Re:Show HN: 100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard l...
by IgorPartola on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:34PM
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And that's what these projects are great for. I have always appreciate simple things like this that allow me to learn new features of a language, or in this case the stdlib that comes with a language, without introducing too much cruft. I am still learning new tech and these kinds of demos are a great way to learn.
I am just being overly pedantic about the 100 LOC thing because it's been used over decades as a kind of badge of honor/bragging rights. If you implement something that really relies on nothing in N LOC then it's warranted. If it's just a teaching tool, like this is, I feel that it's better to present it as "Show HN: how I learned about HTTP support in the Ruby stdlib and wrote a toy proxy server". The README for this project actually makes it sound like this is something you could use in production, which you absolutely should not.
I am just being overly pedantic about the 100 LOC thing because it's been used over decades as a kind of badge of honor/bragging rights. If you implement something that really relies on nothing in N LOC then it's warranted. If it's just a teaching tool, like this is, I feel that it's better to present it as "Show HN: how I learned about HTTP support in the Ruby stdlib and wrote a toy proxy server". The README for this project actually makes it sound like this is something you could use in production, which you absolutely should not.