Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by emn13 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:43PM (#27439177)

I mean, this isn't even really all that far-fetched, other systems do work like that, such as e.g. word's track changes or gdoc's history - or even a database's transaction log.

And while those histories are typically unreadable, it is possible to label (even retroactively) relevant moments in "history"; and in any case just because a consumer-level wordprocessor doesn't export the history in a practical way doesn't mean a technical VCS couldn't do better - it just means we can't take git-as-is or google-docs-as-is and add millions of tiny meaningless "commits" and hope it does anything useful.

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Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by pdimitar on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:04AM (#27460209)

All of that is completely valid and I appreciate it. But you are addressing a group of people most of which are already overbooked and have too much on their plate every day. How viable is it to preach this approach to them?

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