I think it still makes sense if one wants all the fancy bells & whistles of Apache without reimplementing them in their own webserver.
In some sense, implementing a full webserver just because the world standardized on a horribly inefficient way of handling CGI is pretty silly.
We don’t rewrite “cp” and such just because we want to copy multiple files quickly…
Of course, if the sole purpose is just to handle CGI types of things, then the custom embedded webserver likely makes more sense. Apache is a horribly complex beast.
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I think it still makes sense if one wants all the fancy bells & whistles of Apache without reimplementing them in their own webserver.
In some sense, implementing a full webserver just because the world standardized on a horribly inefficient way of handling CGI is pretty silly.
We don’t rewrite “cp” and such just because we want to copy multiple files quickly…
Of course, if the sole purpose is just to handle CGI types of things, then the custom embedded webserver likely makes more sense. Apache is a horribly complex beast.