Comment by goldenkey
5 years ago
Is that smile at the end of your first sentence meant to be condescending?
You are affiliated with Caddy and ought to mention that when you promote your own software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687686
This is not a competition. Caddy is not even in the same realm as Redbean.
Redbean is a multi-platform binary that doubles as a ZIP. It's roughly 1500 times smaller than Caddy too.
> different usecases
Right. :)
> Is that smile at the end of your first sentence meant to be condescending?
What? Of course not! You're reading way too much into that. It's simply enthusiasm. I read about Redbean and it being a single file webserver and the first thing to come to mind is Caddy, as "prior art".
Like I said, different usecases; Caddy is a general purpose webserver which has automatic certificate management, H2/H3 support, reverse proxy, file server, a strong plugin system, the list goes on. Of course it'll be bigger in size. Redbean is super cool and does have the advantage in file size and portability, clearly, but it is essentially a single-purpose tool. And there's nothing wrong with that.