Neovim Plugin Serves HTTP Requests Directly from Buffers
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Summary
The article describes a unique Neovim plugin written in Lua that serves HTTP requests directly from open buffers, boasting no external dependencies and superior performance compared to Nginx. It also highlights the plugin's support for Djot content and draws a humorous parallel to a historical anecdote about Emacs being used for air traffic control.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI wrote a Neovim plugin in Lua that serves HTTP requests from open buffers.
It has no external dependencies, it has first-class support for serving content in Djot, and it is faster than Nginx so it won’t be a performance bottleneck behind a reverse proxy.
There is that famous story from the 1990s about the man who was a Lisper but could not afford any of the commercial Lisps, so he deployed message routing for a German air traffic control system in a headless instance of Emacs.
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