P3 - Personal Porting Project

A personal project exploring different Programming Languages to implement a small program that does 8 things:

Open a File
Read File contents
Put contents into an Array/List/Vector
Select N number of items from Array/List/Vector at Random
Generate a String from concatenating the Randomly selecting items
Host a Web application
Create JSON object using Generated String
Return JSON object on GET requests

Goals

Learn various Programming Languages to gauge Appropriate Use of them
Learn different Programming Techniques
Increase knowledge of Docker
Test and Document Performance of Programming Languages

Areas to Explore

Add more Programming Languages
Add Tests
Add HTML and CSS to create a UI
Document and Host on various Platforms - AWS, Heroku, etc.
Minimise Docker Images

Run the applications

docker-compose up -d

Then visit localhost/{language} in a Browser.

Stop the applications

docker-compose down