Hacker News Reader

Comment by anothergoogler | Hacker News Reader

Thanks for the writeup. What are you using to handle the WS connections on the server?

import javax.websocket.MessageHandler;

Stayed away from frameworks. Mailinator suffers from "do it yourself" syndrome where I wanted write most things myself for the educational value. No Spring, no web frameworks, straight servlets. Custom SMTP server.

(It does use Redis pub/sub but I did write my own first, Redis was just too easy not to rely on)

Woohoo Job security though right?

Reminds me of the Plenty of Fish story in terms of avoiding frameworks and rolling it yourself. In hindsight, would you consider this approach an accelerant or a deterrent? I know I've often found myself thinking about Plenty of Fish when I'm on page 400 of the lastest 1000 page hip framework book :-)

Is it really written in Java?

I love when popular services are written in Java, PHP, or even something crazier like ColdFusion. Just to spite the naysayers.

That same attitude is why I kept pushing people to do one in Fortran. Then this showed up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938405

Now, we need a useful app in Unlambda that people actually paid for. Then, you show them the code and tutorials when they're interested in doing extensions. Observe, record, and share their reactions. (villainous laughter)

http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/#intro

Almost every large tech company still uses Java in some way on the backend, and I doubt that will change soon. Google, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, etc. PHP has a significantly worse reputation, although Facebook is known for a very large PHP footprint. ColdFusion, well... I haven't seen anyone in recent years using that in production.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com