[Gambas-user] WebPage support in Gambas

[John Spikowski]

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:31 -0400, Rob Kudla wrote:
> On 03/18/2012 01:16 PM, John Spikowski wrote:
> > I have found that it is more difficult to get folks to try your software
> > if it means needing admin privileges and installing frameworks not used
> > by any other applications. I would guess the best approach would be is
> 
> To be honest, that's largely why I develop primarily for the web now.
> All the end user needs is a 0-3 year old web browser, or if I design
> carefully, a smartphone or tablet.
> 
> The only solutions you have for a single-file stand-alone program under
> Linux are a statically linked C/C++ app (which will be enormous) or
> something with a self-contained app wrapper like tcl/tk (which is awful
> to program in, and will make your app look like it came with Windows
> 95). I remember efforts to make statically linked versions of Python and
> Ruby for this purpose, but I imagine for graphical apps you'd run into
> the same dependency issues as Gambas.
> 
> > to use Gtk components for a demo version of your application which would
> > minimize the install time of dependencies. How big is the Gambas
> > runtime?
> 
> $ time sudo apt-get install gambas2-runtime
> [...]
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   gambas2-runtime
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 193 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 602 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> 
> So you're correct, the bulk of the dependencies will be the components.
> On the other hand, on my system, "apt-get install gambas2-ide" wants to
> install 15.2MB of packages totaling 50MB when uncompressed. Most of it
> seems to be Qt.
> 
> Rob

I think it's great that a language as rich in features as Gambas is
flexible enough to server up web pages as well.

ScriptBasic is less then 500KB, can run in a single process as a
multi-threaded web server (with in memory session support) which works
really well with the new web paradigm. (AJAX) ScriptBasic is already
running and waiting for requests which are handled with pre-compiled
(tokenized) scripts. An efficient client / server environment is
paramount if dynamic applications is your web goal. If all you care
about is displaying static pages, pretty much anything will do.