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Re: "The Wall CGI - source published"
Thank you for posting this. It is simple and readable, although I cannot help but raise my hand on the lack of error checking. Everything should work just fine most of the time, if not always, but you should not assume that!
Jun 10 · 4 weeks ago
🚀 stack [OP] · Jun 10 at 20:11:
I'll leave the error checking as an excercise for the reader!
🚀 stack [OP] · Jun 10 at 20:21:
More seriously, failure here is not a problem:
I know that we are taught to obsess over error checking, but in many cases it is just unnecessary.
If something does not work, it is better to plan for it and do something useful -- or nothing at all -- than have a significant chunk of your time and your code be dedicated to error messages that no one should see if you do things right.
Yes. Checked exceptions were, in my opinion, one of Java's few design level mishaps ... so much development time wasted on try / catch / throw :)
Anyone remember SQLException? It remembers you...
— tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/wall/cgi
The Wall CGI - source published — I added the C sources for my Wall CGI. It is an example of a minimal CGI - compiles to 14KB, minimal execution footprint, and the data is limited to 64KB max (old messages will be truncated). My Wall (link above) has been running for about a year alongside SpellBinding. Scribble a message if you feel like it.