I get your point, but this isn't about writing a web server from scratch like nginx is. The http libs of Go provide enough to write a small server for a website like suckless.org or similar, of course not as sophisticated as nginx is.
On Friday, September 21, 2012, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 09:50:14PM +0200, Džen wrote: > > What's the reason behind using nginx anyway? I guess it would be simpler > to > > write an own http web server with go's http lib. Or am I wrong? > > Yes sure it's absolutely simpler to design, write, and test your own > public-facing network service from scratch than it would be to deploy a > well-tested and well-understood performant, secure server that has > already been packaged for several popular operating systems. > > So much simpler. > >
