Lavandula

This is some of the cleanest, modern looking, beautiful C code I've seen in a while. I know it's not the kernel, and there's probably good reasons for lots of #ifdef…

Some unsolicited feedback: I think the appRoute macro obfuscates the types and signatures, and introduces some unnecessary indirection. I would get rid of it. Related, the…

That's a great example of how to write C in 2025. Congrats and well done.

I am convinced that well written C code is more aesthetically pleasing than well written code in other languages. Great job and thanks for sharing.

Nice work! I like the little test framework you built. Have you considered making runTest a macro so that you can print the name of the test along with the test result?

The README gets straight to the point and I really like that. Additionally, the .env file parser is quite clean. https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula/blob/main/src/dotenv.c…

It's very dangerous to write a http parser from scratch in C. This can be very vulnerable without rigorous testing. To get a useful web framework for production in C, I think…

There is a heap overflow in the http parser. Should I spoil it or let people find it on their own?

The code is very readable and well organized. My only major critique is that there's very little error checking, e.g. there are many calls to snprintf and malloc without checking…

Thanks for sharing; small is beautiful. A couple of points of feedback: - check return value from malloc(); - consider using your own arena allocator (which gets a larger block…

The code is very readable and well organized. My only major critique is that there's very little error checking, e.g. there are many calls to snprintf and malloc without checking…

Very nice! A couple of notes: you'll want to use non-blocking I/O and an event loop to prevent one slow client from locking up the whole server. You should also check for partial…

That's fair. And I do agree. The use cases for something like this are very thin compared to what tools you can use out there instead, Django, Rails, Express, etc. All of which…

I'm stupid — is this to create web apps that run on the server? More or less replacing PHP or whatever?

People, stop trying to be so serious and nitpick this project. This is a great example of an actual HN worthy share. Someone built a cool project and explored the possibilities…

I'm wanting to do the same thing. I've also already written a language (in C) to generate HTML (a template language), so these two go hand-in-hand!

I like this, thanks for sharing. I recently did some work with a python web server using the basehttpserver and it was amazingly easy. Pythons even got built in tls support,…

Does it do HTTPS? I'd be interested to try it on ESP32 but it has to support HTTPS.

Very nice! A couple of notes: you'll want to use non-blocking I/O and an event loop to prevent one slow client from locking up the whole server. You should also check for partial…

Nice work! I like the little test framework you built. Have you considered making runTest a macro so that you can print the name of the test along with the test result?

I don't understand the example. Does it even compile? It's been a long time since I've used C, so maybe it's using some syntax that I'm unaware of? IE: What defines "home" that…

which version of C does this conform to?

Nice. Is if a one thread per request model? Does it support async await type of architecture?

How compatible is this with embedded devices? How much does this depend on OS APIs?

It's very dangerous to write a http parser from scratch in C. This can be very vulnerable without rigorous testing. To get a useful web framework for production in C, I think…

Hi, I think this is great. I've really enjoyed working with Jetzig, which is sort of similar. I also love the BSD C CGI Postgres stack. I'm just a CRUDmonkey with mostly python…

That's fair. And I do agree. The use cases for something like this are very thin compared to what tools you can use out there instead, Django, Rails, Express, etc. All of which…