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Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)

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Operating systems & kernelsNetworking & internet infrastructureC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

What it is

Justine Tunney presents Redbean, a web server distributed as a single actually portable executable that runs on multiple operating systems. It embeds Lua, SQLite and MbedTLS in a fork-based server.

Why Hacker News recommends it

The author and others link it as the definitive explanation of redbean and the APE toolchain, including its performance claims.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “If you're interested in learning more, this talk from 2021 is fascinating”

    Fascinating talk on redbean and APE toolchain

    TimTheTinker, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history”

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Topics: redbean, cosmopolitan, web server, lua, justine tunney

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