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

7 points by bytesong 15y ago

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.

kaolinite 15y ago
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.
- bytesong 15y ago
  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.
  - kaolinite 15y ago
    That's cool. I won't use it straight away anyway, but will definitely be useful in the future.
bytesong 15y ago
Clickable: http://github.com/bsg/libserv http://github.com/bsg/libserv
pwg 15y ago
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 http://wiki.tcl.tk/23621 Simple HTTP server in a page of code: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4333 http://wiki.tcl.tk/4333
parfamz 15y ago
Good work. Have you seen libevent, perhaps you can borrow some ideas.
- bytesong 14y ago
  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.