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Gemini web client in 100 lines of C

Shown by ir3k on Jul 19, 2023. Click the card to turn it over.

91points

45comments

#707of 3,109 in 2023

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3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.

Execution: 2 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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Impressive density and readability of code
From 1 comment
- Impressive, the code is dense but not too hard to follow. And you even managed to cram in history!
  sjmulder on HN
Clever funnel-based goto control flow
From 1 comment
- Nice to see someone else fall upon what I call funnel-based control flow, as opposed to stack-based control flow of most programs using functions. I used the same pattern in…
  __s on HN

Resource leaks and buffer overflows in the code
From 1 comment
- It's a nice project, but - I guess as is tradition with the majority of C projects - it has resource leaks and buffer overflows. There is at least one resource leak, namely,…
  pobrn on HN
Code is very hard to read
From 1 comment
- This is the most unreadable code I may have ever seen. Congrats on successfully writing it and getting it to work.
  sbjs on HN
Depends on OpenSSL rather than a lighter TLS library
From 1 comment
- Nice, except the dependency on openssl. It would have been a great opportunity to use BearSSL[0]. 0. https://bearssl.org/
  snvzz on HN
Described as a web client when it is a command line client
From 1 comment
- What do you mean by web client? From the github it looks more like a command line program.
  Narishma on HN

Use BearSSL or abstract the TLS layer
From 2 comments
- Nice, except the dependency on openssl. It would have been a great opportunity to use BearSSL[0]. 0. https://bearssl.org/
  snvzz on HN
- Is BearSSL still actively maintained? My approach is abstracting SSL away so the API can be exchanged wit OpenSSL, MbetTLS, etc.
  cryo on HN
Replace comma-operator tricks with clearer code
From 1 comment
- https://github.com/ir33k/gmi100/blob/master/gmi100.c#L27 definitely threw me for a loop until I realized it was a line saving trick. It would be more readable to save lines…
  jeremycw on HN

Does it compile on OpenBSD
From 1 comment
- I remember gplaces, but it doesn't compile under OpenBSD. It needs lots of fixes to be built on systems beside GNU/Linux. On golang, Bombadillo today supports "images" with…
  anthk on HN
What does the project actually do
From 2 comments
- What do you mean by web client? From the github it looks more like a command line program.
  Narishma on HN
- This is cool. I asked ChatGPT4 to explain to me what it does, and it gives a useful overview: This is a minimal Gemini protocol client written in C. The Gemini protocol is an…
  keepamovin on HN

Bombadillo
From 1 comment
- I remember gplaces, but it doesn't compile under OpenBSD. It needs lots of fixes to be built on systems beside GNU/Linux. On golang, Bombadillo today supports "images" with…
  anthk on HN
Amfora
From 1 comment
- I remember gplaces, but it doesn't compile under OpenBSD. It needs lots of fixes to be built on systems beside GNU/Linux. On golang, Bombadillo today supports "images" with…
  anthk on HN
gplaces
From 1 comment
- I remember gplaces, but it doesn't compile under OpenBSD. It needs lots of fixes to be built on systems beside GNU/Linux. On golang, Bombadillo today supports "images" with…
  anthk on HN