Http_server Alternatives

http_server reviews and mentions

• ponylang/http_server: Pony library for building HTTP server applications.
  1 project | /r/ponylang | 4 Jan 2023
• Announcing the Hare programming language
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2022

  I use pony https://ponylang.io/ as a language - it's an Actor based language with GC where every actor has its own memory and is responsible for its own GC.

  The main feature is its ability to safely share or move data around between actors in a way that is data-race and deadlock free. Pony doesn't use locks anyways :-)

  A high level as to how it achieves this:

• Green Threads vs Async/Await, ergonomics-wise, toward thread-safety
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 24 Sep 2021

  And it's not just the mathematics. The non-type-theoretic paradigm-upending let-it-crash-to-keep-code-correct resilience for which Erlang/Elixir is famous was one of the biggest eye-openers for me in my programming career (which began in 1972 when I was 12). Also, the simple behaviour and very high performance results of contemporary Actorish implementations, especially Akka.io and the in-some-ways-more-impressive ponylang.io and related ORCA GC ("concurrent and parallel garbage collector for actor programs ... does not require any STW steps, or synchronization mechanisms ... zero-copy message passing and sharing of mutable data ... data race free ... [no] read/write barriers"), are eye-catching affirmations of the Actor model's approach.

• Mutability vs Immutability vs Renaming vs other ideas
  1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Aug 2021

  Being an unabashed Ponylang fanboy, I'd say that mutability is a separate question from the "actual" type. I'm simplifying a lot here, but generally in Pony you'd express this in a couple of different ways depending on whether you want the binding itself to be immutable or whether you only care about the instance itself:

• Pony – High Performance Safe Actor Programming
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2021

  There's an http server and a small "sinatra" like web framework.

  - https://github.com/ponylang/http_server

  - https://github.com/theodus/jennet

  Someone might have done SQLite for Pony, but I'm not aware of it. Writing network protocol stuff in Pony is usually pretty easy and the C-FFI is usually pretty easy which generally makes writing database connectivity (for at least happy path basics) fairly easy. (Add lots of caveats here).

  If you'd like to talk more in-depth, swing by the Zulip and myself and other folks from the community can help out with answers.

  https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/

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