I'm writing a Gemini server for fun, does this protocol have a future?
no
As long as people like you keep writing software for it, there is.
No. Write a Gopher server instead. That can actually be done in an afternoon.
I think it might take fewer lines of C to handle gemini than to deal with binding/listening the socket for it. Certainly if you do it the new getaddrinfo way.
>>5
I'm not seeing this. Explain.
Gopher, Gemini, and HTTP can be done well enough with xinetd, can't they?
>>6
Sure, my point was that it takes almost nothing.
OP here, I wrote my Gemini server in around 70 lines of Perl.