undefined | Better HN

0 pointszzzcpan8y ago0 comments

Because people have a hard time figuring out what it is. Could you explain what it is? What benefits does it have to make it worth exploring? To me it looks like a rather invasive but flexible and dynamically configurable inetd. But it forces you to use its own libraries to receive http requests.

0 comments

derefr8y ago

It's a lot like OpenResty (https://openresty.org/en/), which is Nginx with a Lua interpreter embedded and bridged to its request-response cycle (the OpenResty page explains the point of that pretty well); but instead of Lua, Unit has a bunch of other language runtimes embedded.

zzzcpanOP8y ago

I haven't found any embedded interpreters or runtimes here. Quite the opposite, I see they have libraries they ship with other languages that a user has to use in order to receive http requests.

etiene8y ago

Why remove Lua, though? I'm a heavy Lua user, which is why I use the openresty bundle of nginx. There's no reason for me to try this out. This is unfortunate!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse