Implement language support for compiled languages ( C / Go / Haxe / etc )

[Marak]

There's no real reason why we can't also support languages which require a compile step.

Users would upload the static source code to hook.io and we would intelligently compile / cache / distribute the binary to our worker pool until the user changed it's source again.

It would be really neat to write microservices in C. All HTTP req data can be passed in via ARGV and STDOUT will pipe to HTTP response. Would make for some really fast microservices.

[joshgillies]

👍

[pyhedgehog]

You can use ccache for speedup.

[rockymadden]

Would love to see Rust on this list 😄. Really excited for this one!

[Marak]

@rockymadden - Could do perform any work to help get rust implemented? I've never used Rust. Adding new languages to hook.io should be easy!

Specifically, could you create a run-rust binary which is capable of mapping arguments and processing STDIN / STDOUT?

I've detailed the process of adding a new language a bit here

As a proof of concept, we could have the run-rust re-compile source code on every request ( until I implement a binary cache system ).

[Marak]

Closing issue.

This is no longer applicable, as all core spawning logic has been moved to: https://github.com/stackvana/stack

If anyone is interested in adding additional language support, please file a new issue at: https://github.com/stackvana/stack/issues/new

Any changes to stack will propagate down-stream to hook.io