alt Hacker NewsI'm curious on the goal of releasing software like this, it's making some crazy claims right out of the gate, but is obviously not production ready or battle hardened. There's some reasonably obvious security issues and not a single test of any kind in the project.
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bfoag • today at 8:54 AM
I could understand your criticism if this was link to a flashy marketing page or a blatant attempt to sell something - but this is a github repo with an MIT license, what exactly is the problem?
I have no particular interest in using this piece of software, but I would still celebrate and defend the notion that people can have little ideas like this, get something working and then share it with others to move forward with.
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The goals are several:
1. To share an innovation we developed for ourselves, that can help the wider PHP community (after all, 80% of the Web still runs on PHP!)
2. To pioneer a new approach that can help a bunch of people, like Caddy or FrankenPHP had once pioneered its own approaches
3. To show that PHP by itself can be enough to not only build a decent web server, but actually surpass NGINX together with PHP-FPM both in memory and speed, which surprised us. The memory particularly turns out to be the bottleneck and Qbix Server finally helps solve the 10K issue for PHP!
4. To make a new and very simple way to cleanly build websites and APIs that leverage both HTTP Requests and WebSockets: simply drop appropriately named files in the right places! It is optionally opinionated so the shapes of new codebases using the server, instead of all being ad-hoc, can be standardized along the same lines our own are.
5. To get feedback from the HN community. Speaking of that:
Could you please list the reasonably obvious security issues, so they can be fixed?