> "nice guy" pushover

These two things aren't as related as people think they are. One can be a "nice guy" and still not be a pushover. Being assertive is not the same as being aggressive.

pretty sure you'd have to call it something else. I don't think the crates setup allows what exactly happened with left-pad to happen. It's much more likely to involve malicious code.

for one it is against the law in a lot of places :)

Why it's against the law is another discussion.

Sure it being against the law allows an arrest. But in reality someone usually has to call it in, and unless there is a reward in it for them their real reason is it is bothering them somehow.

If you grill at the park, beer in hand, while grilling up an American classic of burgers and dogs for your onlooking happy family, in reality there is about 99% chance anyone seeing it is at worst going to ask you to put a coozy on it in the politest way (and rarely even that). Even though it is illegal. Now if you get sloppy and harass people, or look homeless, the calls will start.

Banging in the park in open sight on a hill? Odds are totally inverted. There's something more than law at play.

i saw somebody mention they are going to do something about that soon, but I don't remember where i saw it.

I was looking for a web server, not a web framework. A replacement for nginx and caddy, not something to build applications on thus I never would have thought about clicking on a link talking about web frameworks.

Anybody have any suggestions beyond the one under discussion?

Did you click the link? Scroll down to “Server frameworks.”

I don't want a "server framework" I want a server. OP actually built a server.

I clicked through the first few and they talk about building applications with them. That is explicitly what I excluded.

In many cases the difference is whether you write your configuration in a file with a '.yml' extension or a '.rs' extension.

It does mean that you end up with per-app binaries, which is either a pro or a con depending on the use case.

Can they do what caddy does or not without a turing complete language ? That is the question.

The web server that I am building uses YAML-format configuration.

servo was never a fully featured web browser and was never proposed to be iirc. It was proposed as experimental from the start. The most we got at the time was browser.html

Back in... 2018? there was a Servo binary you could download that had an address bar and could be used to browse the web. That actually started to get stripped down over time, the later binaries had less and less functionality, until now I don't even think there are any. Servo spearheaded a lot of projects, like bindings to macOS frameworks from Rust, that would have been used to create a more comprehensive browser, but then got torn down once the larger thing was canceled in favor of certain components, like webrender.

I don't know when exactly it was canceled - maybe around the time Firefox Quantum shipped.

Note that I never said it was ever not experimental. Just that it would have been more until it was canceled.

servoshell exists today. Their focus has definitely been in the rendering etc and not in developing browser UI, but that's understandable.

https://book.servo.org/running-servoshell.html

No, this is closer to the definition of neoliberalism that people are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

that's pretty simple.. nobody wants to provoke them into using their nukes. It's also still likely a hard sell to the populations of various countries.

> Why would you be inclined to think that?

See the number of people who say they voted for trump because they think he's a successful business man.

> A decision to include Rust in the kernel isn't a decision to include any patches from any specific person with no questions asked.

This is not what's happening.