actix-website

One thing that nobody here seems to have mentioned is that, as far as I can tell, the actix.rs website was not created by the author of Actix itself. Just compare the writing on the website with the author's own postmortem. I don't know who wrote the website; I can't find an author's name or a Git repo for the site itself. But whoever they were, it seems that they, not the author of Actix itself, did the marketing that gave many of us our primary impression of what kind of project this is. If anyone reading this knows more about the history of the website, I'd appreciate any additional background or pointers to more details. Edit: After running some git blame commands on the https://github.com/actix/actix-website repository (thanks Nikolay for keeping it there), it seems that the most eloquent marketing for the project was written by Armi

I'm not a C expert. Trying to understand if this offer other novel techniques. So in Go we already have this capability in http.FileServer(http.Dir("static")) Also, in Rust, actix web has similar built-in function: https://github.com/actix/actix-website/blob/master/content/d... Again, I'm a noob in C but I really want to understand state of the art in file serving. I imagine it isn't as easy as it's for thing like server a big file by reading byte by byte and write the response. It has to have some tricks here which I don't know.

I built the actix.rs website with hugo and while I generally like it it has some bizarre things that make development harder than necessary. Sometimes it randomly refuses to build pages that worked before, until you realize it has something to do with it now picking up other templates. But no error message. And that you can't shell out to helper scripts makes it very restricted in so many aspects. I wanted to extract source examples from other code and preprocess it and the only way I could make it work was some really ugly go template code and that didn't even let me implement everything I want since they are so restrictive :( I really wish one could shell out to an executable to fill the gaps. As an example this is how code snippets are included. Sadly we cannot remove leading spaces on the lines to remove extra indentation, so now th