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by eatonphil 3685 days ago
Fastcgi was incredibly simple to get hello world running - both in C and through the Chicken Scheme FFI. However, "all" it provides is the backend for a web server so you'd still need to handle things like routes and templates and responses yourself. Still, I don't find those to be the challenging part.

The issue that I'm having with fastcgi is the random scarcity of API documentation. I can't believe it's so hard to find - googling for "fcgx accept_r api documentation" just yields nothing.

Anyway, it was very cool to get it running in Scheme so I'll definitely write a post on that soon. I'll post it on this thread when I do.

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I'd read a (hopefully scheme agnostic, or at least, scheme-decoupled) tutorial on how you got fastcgi up and running painlessly. I really struggled with the lack of documentation as well.