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OWebl v0.1 Release Candidate Now on OPAM (meetowebl.com)
32 points by eatonphil on March 22, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



this is a neat idea, as ocsigen is rather intimidating to use for the simple case.

are there any plans to make use of cohttp and/or lwt as the underlying network abstraction ? my concern with hand-rolled http is it may not handle the edge cases correctly and cohttp is more battle tested. also i believe it's more idiomatic ocaml to include interface files to hide the implementation details.


If you want something cohttp based https://github.com/rgrinberg/opium might serve your needs.


rgrinberg is right. If you want a good web framework built on cohttp that is NOT as challenging as ocsigen/eliom then I'd definitely point you to opium.

NOT using cohttp/lwt/core/batteries fills a niche on its own - i.e. owebl is very lightweight.

There is also currently no major reason (read: production users or interest) for me to stop using owebl as an educational tool to grok HTTP, concurrent/distributed computing, etc.




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