Simon Willison’s Weblog

I like Unicorn because it’s Unix. Ryan Tomayko analyses Unicorn, a new, pre-forking Ruby HTTP server that makes extensive use of Unix syscalls and idioms, and asks why dynamic language programmers don’t take advantage of these more often.

# 11:42 am / exec, fork, programming, ruby, ryan-tomayko, unicorn, unix

Python is Unix. Jacob ports Ryan Tomayko’s simple prefork network server to Python.

# 11:43 am / jacob-kaplan-moss, python, ryan-tomayko, unix

There is no WebKit on Mobile. PPK ran 27 tests against 19 different WebKit-on-mobile implementations and found enormous disparities between the levels of support in currently available mobile phones.

# 12:23 pm / mobile, ppk, standards, testing, webkit