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I can recommend that people check out Lune [1], it's a Luau runtime which includes a small but nice standard library. It's very easy to create something like a webserver in it. [2]…

I am building a webserver using Luau[1] and Lune[2], which will be used to host my own website. I haven't been this excited in a long time, when it comes to trying out a new progra…

I disagree. Having been a previous V developer contributing to the language (though arguably very little), the issues of missed deadlines, fake it till you make it and more seems c…

I created something like this relatively recently. The downside is of course that it requires JavaScript. https://github.com/benstigsen/include.js

I noted this on my website, some time ago [1]: > Making use of sql.DB from multiple goroutines is safe, since Go manages its own internal mutex. Then I quote the database/sql docum…

Not daily, but I remember reading quite a bunch about plan9 on the HundredRabbits website. That's how I was introduced to the OS. Found a minor mention of it on the Wayback Machine…

Ah that is true. It does make us depend less on JavaScript, although not to the degree I thought when linking to it. Thank you for correcting me.

I joined Vlang GitHub organisation after I was invited. I was aware of the "V for Vaporware" articles [1] that already existed, but at that point they were more than a year old, so…

It definitely depends on the technology, but for a lot of sites JavaScript simply isn't necessary. A lot of what could be static sites use JavaScript. CSS may be tricky to some (I'…