I looked at kcgi and it's pretty cool for CGI/FastCGI if you want a-la-carte and then you use separate libraries for everything else.
Vely has FastCGI built in by default (you can start FastCGI server in seconds with vv/vf), and the output statements (such as @ or p-out) do output to the web (i.e. to the Apache or Nginx reverse proxy) by default.
So you could say in terms of functionality, kcgi is built into Vely transparently.
In terms of additional functionality beyond kcgi, Vely offers
- web constructs (getting input parameters from GET/POST, uploading files, sending files to client with send-file, cookie handling, output to web etc.),
- safer and easier string manipulation,
- database access (mariadb, mysql, postgresql, sqlite) with prepared statements and persistent connections,
- regex (match-pattern),
- exec-program for executing programs,
- file operations,
- encryption/encoding/hashing.
I agree there's a learning curve. I can't say how would people see that, though the idea is to be easier than a traditional API, simply on the account of writing a single statement instead of say 5-10 C API calls.
Vely has FastCGI built in by default (you can start FastCGI server in seconds with vv/vf), and the output statements (such as @ or p-out) do output to the web (i.e. to the Apache or Nginx reverse proxy) by default.
So you could say in terms of functionality, kcgi is built into Vely transparently.
In terms of additional functionality beyond kcgi, Vely offers
- web constructs (getting input parameters from GET/POST, uploading files, sending files to client with send-file, cookie handling, output to web etc.),
- safer and easier string manipulation,
- database access (mariadb, mysql, postgresql, sqlite) with prepared statements and persistent connections,
- regex (match-pattern),
- exec-program for executing programs,
- file operations,
- encryption/encoding/hashing.
I agree there's a learning curve. I can't say how would people see that, though the idea is to be easier than a traditional API, simply on the account of writing a single statement instead of say 5-10 C API calls.