(Cold open)
I watch a lot of “edutainment” on Youtube. And when a video on Portal 2 being turned into a webserver crossed my feed, I had to watch.
Combining that with this “webserver in 25 lines” from Computerphile I saw the previous year, I got inspired to write a webserver in Zsh.
Here’s the immediate result
is what came out of that.
Even though it’s single-threaded, it’s still reasonably scalable, since I’m poll()ing all open connections (using the Zsh builtin zselect).
And a toy webserver like this is a great project to take to a new language.
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