[m-users.] users Digest, Vol 107, Issue 14

[Sean Charles (emacstheviking)]

Nice to hear!

> On 16 Oct 2023, at 15:07, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> Am Montag, dem 16.10.2023 um 15:39 +0200 schrieb Michel Vanden Bossche:
>>> On Sat, 14 Oct 2023, Matthew Delaney wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi, I'm new to Mercury but am interested in using it to replace Prolog
>>>> in a project I'm just starting. This project will need a web-interface
>>>> and backend DB connectivity. Reading through Mercury's documentation,
>>>> it looks like the most straightforward approach would be to use CGI
>>>> for the Web App part and the Foreign Language Interface for DB
>>>> connectivity. Is that correct or are there other options available?
>>> 
>>> If you're using one of the Java or .NET web frameworks, you can compile
>>> your Mercury to a Java or C# library respectively and call it from the
>>> framework.
>>> 
>>> Julien.
>> 
>> Our experience with the Java backend is that it offers great performance.
>> A Mercury application complied to Java is viewed from the outside as a
>> standard Java application (Spring Boot…) and can be easily deployed in the
>> cloud, using Kubernetes for scalability. Just in case…
> 
> I've programmed in Java many years ago. And I think that the asm_fast grade
> must be WAY faster than Java. I have two time critical Mercury projects and
> the performance is astonishing.
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
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