Cool new Free software

Posted Dec 19, 2012 23:03 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Cool new Free software by dlang
Parent article: Status.net service to phase out, replaced by pump.io

I know this is just another load of armchair OS design, and that it will not probably work in real life, but perhaps it is worth a try for somebody.

Remember that this article refers to node.js. People have tried many things over the years in the web server arena, and around 2000 Apache was the clear market leader, with Microsoft a distant second. Apparently everything had been invented already. Then in 2002 a Russian guy decided to start development on a different model. Guess what: 10 years later it is the second web server in actives, ahead of Microsoft IIS. A year ago some crazy guys took Google's V8 engine and coded a web server around it, not in C or C++ but in... JavaScript. Preposterous. The result: the new web server everyone is talking about, capable of sustaining thousands of requests per second out of the box.