Most of the current comments are not abiding by the Show HN comment guidelines. In Comments Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution,

Most of the current comments are not abiding by the Show HN comment guidelines. In Comments Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest. Ask questions out of curiosity. Don't cross-examine. Instead of "you're doing it wrong", suggest alternatives. When someone is learning, help them learn more. When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative. In addition, not all software on the internet is meant to replace other software, compete with other software, or even be deployed in a production environment. The internet is more than large enough for lots of wheels of all shapes and sizes. Contributing to existing projects is good and so is writing your own programs. I understand the underlying sentiment people are getting at - this seems similar to Redis - but we should keep an open mind. Maybe he wanted to write C++ instead of C? Maybe he was trying out boost::asio? Maybe he just wanted to write some code?