[ticviking]

The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment.

At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings

[tambourine_man]

That was the web, yeah. Absurdly simple. Now all new protocols are binary and require reading several academic papers instead of a single RFC.

[bob1029]

> At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings

Exactly... I worry about the masses learning of this and gaining literacy over the landed gentry.

PHP/CGI basically had it solved. I emulate PHP in .NET6 today using verbatim and interpolated string operations.

[a_subsystem]

Relevant: https://twitter.com/serbantanasa/status/1582019078533046272