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G-Wan web server (gwan.com)

7 points by vegai ↗ HN
Just bumped into a rather impressive even if restrictive/closed source web server.

They quote massive performance improvements compared to IIS -- 5 million times more performant. However, they require the web application to be written in C.

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jesusabdullah
Interesting idea, but I think it ignores the fact that languages aren't equal. You may be able to save on hardware with gwan, but there's also the fact that writing your webapp in C could take a lot more time and effort than, say, php, ruby, python, javascript, etc. Even if the language itself isn't necessarily better, the available libraries are likely more complete in a language more often used for the web.

(Yes, I noticed that the authors seem to think C is the best language, but they certainly haven't proved it. YMMV, I guess.)

Incubus
Hardware is still cheaper than the extra hours developers will have to put in writing the "C scripts" (...) in the first place.
noa
It does not look that difficult to me: <br><br> <pre> int main(int argc, char argv[]) { xbuf_t reply = get_reply(argv); // get a reply xbuf_cat(reply, "Hello World"); // format a reply return 200; // return an HTTP status (200:'OK') } </pre>