Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)

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TimTheTinker · 2022-07 · Recommendation

Justine Tunney's APE (actually portable executables) exploits, er, makes use of, the fact that a shebang isn't required to run a shell script. The single executable file generated by the Cosmopolitan linker creates an insane polyglot binary executable that runs on 6 operating systems as well as on bare metal (i.e. bootable as its own OS); in addition, it's a valid Zip archive, and you can modify files inside it using any zip utility... fascinating stuff. On Linux, it bootstraps execution initially as a shell script, but the shell script writes the "ELF" file header and executes it (I'm probably doing a horrible job of explaining though). [LINK] If you're interested in learning more, this talk from 2021 is fascinating: [VIDEO] . It covers Redbean, a portable, run-anywhere web server built with the APE toolchain; since then Redbean 2 has been released, which adds a lot more features. Here's a link to Redbean: [LINK]

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adolph · 2023-01 · Reference

Like running redbean on someone else's computer? redbean embeds Lua, SQLite, and MbedTLS into a fork() driven application server that benchmarks at 1.1 million qps on a personal computer. [LINK] [VIDEO]

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jart · 2021-12 · Reference

Author here. Thanks! The other projects I'm known for here on HN are: [LINK] Redbean (2011) is a single file distributable web server. Here's a video of me giving a talk about it [VIDEO] [LINK] αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε (2020) lets you build c/c++/fortran/etc. code so that it runs on seven operating systems [LINK] Operation Rosehub (2017) where I helped save a lot of people from an Apache security bug similar to Log4j issue today I like doing these projects because they all fit together so well into a consistent story. For example, a lot of these past projects were what helped to make SectorLISP better. Thanks to APE you now have a 20kb quickly deployable and embeddable LISP interpreter. Thanks to Redbean we're going to have an online pastebin service that'll let you publish SectorLISP gists in a few days, for example: [LINK] Thank you Hacker News community for being so supportive and encouraging.

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