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lavandula
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ashtonjamesd / lavandula

lavandula

a lightweight web framework in c

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
985GitHub stars
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What it is

a lightweight web framework in c

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-10-09 12:45:28 UTC to 2025-10-09 20:59:48 UTC.

012025-10-09 12:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsOct 9, 12:002025-10-09 13:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-09 14:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-09 15:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-09 16:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 9, 16:002025-10-09 17:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-09 18:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-09 19:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-09 20:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-09 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 9, 20:00

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Oct 9, 12:002025-10-09 12:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 13:00:00 UTC110
Oct 9, 13:002025-10-09 13:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 14:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 14:002025-10-09 14:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 15:00:00 UTC101
Oct 9, 15:002025-10-09 15:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 16:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 16:002025-10-09 16:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 17:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 17:002025-10-09 17:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 18:002025-10-09 18:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 19:00:00 UTC101
Oct 9, 19:002025-10-09 19:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 20:00:00 UTC000
Oct 9, 20:002025-10-09 20:00:00 UTC2025-10-09 21:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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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/dote... However, it doesn't seem that the parser supports comments. I guess a "good first issue" for anyone interested in contributing would be extending the `skipWhitespace` function to detect `#` tokens and skip the rest of the line when present. Would also need to handle edge cases like env vars having values containing `#` tokens inside (but these will be quoted, so it's probably not too tricky to handle.)
In Show HN: I built a web framework in C
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 the result. There is also an unused loop here [1]. As an aside, I don't see any support for parallelization. That's fine for an initial implementation, but web servers do benefit from threading off requests. If you go that route (pun intended) you might consider using something like libuv [2]. [1] https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula/blob/51d86a284dc7d... [2] https://github.com/libuv/libuv
In Show HN: I built a web framework in C

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