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sgammon
Redbean is awesome
sgammon
But then again, so is everything Justine builds.
bomewish
Some examples of deployment in the wild would have helped?
ihateolives
Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.
sgammon
Well, couldn't the same question be asked about using Python or Ruby within a server? It's scriptable, easier and faster to iterate with. Dynamic. You can execute Lua scripts in Redis. LuaJIT and other implementations can be incredibly fast and pretty fun to code in.
ollybee
In case it's not clear it's the same single file that runs on all supported operating systems. One file, run anywhere.
imtringued
I can already imagine people telling you to install certbot and putting Apache in front of this...
widdershins
I made the website for my wedding with Redbean, just for a bit of fun. It was a delightful experience. Deployment was just: upload one file, restart a process. I developed on my Mac, and deployed the executable, unchanged, to a Linux server. It just worked. Nice.
handyj
Love this software.

Can't say I understand how it works in depth but as something to tinker with it's amazing. So clever.