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Remember FastCGI? (2021)

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53 points heavensteeth | 7 comments | 08 Apr 25 12:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source | bottom
1. cess11 ◴[11 Apr 25 09:45 UTC] No.43652135[source]▶
Was FCGI ever common outside of PHP?
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2. jeltz ◴[11 Apr 25 09:51 UTC] No.43652165[source]▶
It was common in the Perl world.
3. actionfromafar ◴[11 Apr 25 09:52 UTC] No.43652177[source]▶
I don't know, but I think I used it with Java and/or C at some point. It's very simple, you don't need libraries or anything.
4. p_l ◴[11 Apr 25 10:13 UTC] No.43652287[source]▶
Before Phusion Passenger and Mongrel it was common in Rails world too.
5. 4ndrewl ◴[11 Apr 25 10:39 UTC] No.43652408[source]▶
Before PHP it was common in the Perl world.
6. mrweasel ◴[11 Apr 25 11:22 UTC] No.43652637[source]▶
I used it quite a bit with Python, but it was quickly supplanted by UWSGI.
7. Aldipower ◴[11 Apr 25 12:43 UTC] No.43653139[source]▶
Yes, it was very common with Perl, even before PHP. I've written quite a lot of dynamic webpages with FastCGI and Perl and it led to fast and direct results. Combined with mod_perl you also could held this in memory. This was around 2000-2005.