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matt-42
lithium
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matt-42 / lithium

lithium

Easy to use C++17 HTTP Server with no compromise on performances. https://matt-42.github.io/lithium

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9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Easy to use C++17 HTTP Server with no compromise on performances. https://matt-42.github.io/lithium

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-12-05 15:14:52 UTC to 2020-08-29 15:56:50 UTC.

02462019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 3 submissions, 0 commentsDec 20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 2 submissions, 4 commentsAug 2020

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Dec 20192019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC330
Jan 20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20202020-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20202020-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20202020-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC624

What Hacker News says

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I think I need to write a blog post to do a retrospective on what I learned writing iod, silicon, lithium (and vpp, a small image processing lib). There is so much to tell. Just to be short, here is my phylosophy: - don't think too much when you write it the first time, just do it quick. Do all the mistakes and ugly code first and then rething/rewrite things when it can actually simplify the codebase. Big refactors are much more productive and successful than big premature design thinking. - Only expose the complexity that the user need. Simple things should stay simple even if we can do more complex stuff. Look for simplicity everywhere. - Profile before optimizing, the bottleneck is never where you think it is. For you question about metaprogramming, it is used yes. The core of the framework is build around a compile time ke
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y/value map that unroll json and get/post parameter de/serialization at compile time [1] so no dynamic dictionary involving costly malloc is needed. [1] https://github.com/matt-42/lithium/tree/master/libraries/met...
In Lithium ranked the highest performance web application platform

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