Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-19 Thread Simon Studer
Hi Stefan, Thank you for the article. I think I will have to give this some more thought. In any case, your input has been very helpful! Best, Simon *From:* Stefan Eissing [mailto:ste...@eissing.org] *Subject:* Which

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-16 Thread Stefan Eissing
> Am 12.05.2022 um 15:41 schrieb Simon Studer : > > Hi Stefan, > > Thank you for the quick and extensive feedback! > > To be honest, I was not expecting there to be so many good reasons not to use > Rust but I think I see your point that it would be difficult to maintain and > that

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Simon Studer
Hi Stefan, Thank you for the quick and extensive feedback! To be honest, I was not expecting there to be so many good reasons not to use Rust but I think I see your point that it would be difficult to maintain and that compatibility would absolutely be a concern. From what I gather most of

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Stefan Eissing
Hi Simon, > Am 12.05.2022 um 11:28 schrieb Simon Studer : > > Hi everyone, > > When I read about Apache's use of rustls I thought of this thread again. > > For mod_tls, the module itself was written in C linking to the rustls-ffi. I > have been wondering if it would be desirable to implement

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2022-05-12 Thread Simon Studer
Hi everyone, When I read about Apache's use of rustls I thought of this thread again. For mod_tls, the module itself was written in C linking to the rustls-ffi. I have been wondering if it would be desirable to implement the modules themselves in Rust as well and how you would go about doing

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2020-08-20 Thread Wendell Hatcher
Golang!!  Wendell > On Aug 20, 2020, at 6:58 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:59:50 +0200 > Simon Studer wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Recently, I was wondering which programming language should be used >> for new Apache httpd modules. > > Whatever suits the module's

Re: Which programming language should be used for newly developed modules?

2020-08-20 Thread Nick Kew
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 21:59:50 +0200 Simon Studer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Recently, I was wondering which programming language should be used > for new Apache httpd modules. Whatever suits the module's developer and task. The C API has a stability promise: if you use it, your module will