This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad, a blog post by Gábor Nyéki

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A developer created a Neovim plugin that serves HTTP requests directly from editor buffers using pure Lua. The plugin leverages Neovim's libuv bindings for asynchronous I/O and surprisingly outperforms Nginx in benchmarks due to LuaJIT's efficiency and NaN tagging optimization. The implementation serves a static website from nine buffers on a 2012 ThinkPad, with security measures including Docker containerization, AppArmor profiles, and restricted system calls. The setup demonstrates how text editors can be repurposed for unconventional tasks while maintaining good performance.

This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad

<p>That’s impressive, creative, insane, and funny all at the same time.</p>


<p>MAN, I love stuff like this - it’s SO much “Why? Because I could!” :D</p>
