Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#1

Post by bytesong » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 9:57 PM UTC

I must say I was encouraged to post my project here when I saw the positive response to this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3780731

Before you make any comments, please keep in mind that the project is written for fun. I'm not forcing anyone to use it. In fact, nobody should use the current unstable version in a serious project.

Here is the link: http://github.com/bsg/libserv

Please share your thoughts. All criticisms are welcome, even the harsh ones.

p.s. The project is still a work-in-progress.

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#2

Post by kaolinite » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 10:01 PM UTC

Wow - I will use this so much. Thanks for writing this. I suspect you won't get as many responses to this as it's C, not Node.JS or Ruby, but I will find this very useful.

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#3

Post by bytesong » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 10:02 PM UTC

Clickable: http://github.com/bsg/libserv

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#4

Post by bytesong » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 10:05 PM UTC

kaolinite wrote: post #2

Wow - I will use this so much. Thanks for writing this. I suspect you won't get as many responses to this as it's C, not Node.JS or Ruby, but I will find this very useful.

Thanks for commenting. I really appreciate your interest. Please keep in mind that the project has not been tested thoroughly yet and may fail badly in an unexpected way.

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#5

Post by kaolinite » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC

bytesong wrote: post #4

kaolinite wrote: post #2

Wow - I will use this so much. Thanks for writing this. I suspect you won't get as many responses to this as it's C, not Node.JS or Ruby, but I will find this very useful.

Thanks for commenting. I really appreciate your interest. Please keep in mind that the project has not been tested thoroughly yet and may fail badly in an unexpected way.

That's cool. I won't use it straight away anyway, but will definitely be useful in the future.

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#6

Post by pwg » Sat, Mar 31, 2012, 10:17 PM UTC

Note for those who do not know, Tcl already provides the ability to do cross platform non-blocking TCP servers.

Look at the Tcl "socket" command.

Very basic file server in 8 lines: http://wiki.tcl.tk/23621

Simple HTTP server in a page of code: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4333

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#7

Post by parfamz » Sun, Apr 01, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

Good work. Have you seen libevent, perhaps you can borrow some ideas.

Re: Show HN: Yet another "my first open-source project" thread. Feedback, please?

#8

Post by bytesong » Tue, Apr 03, 2012, 12:58 AM UTC

parfamz wrote: post #7

Good work. Have you seen libevent, perhaps you can borrow some ideas.

Thank you. Yes, I have already seen libevent. In fact, it was of great help to me when I was trying to learn about select/epoll/kqueue etc.