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williamcotton / webdsl

webdsl

WebDSL – A fast C-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq

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13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
21GitHub stars
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What it is

WebDSL – A fast C-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-01-26 12:48:39 UTC to 2025-03-20 15:07:35 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

02462025-01-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 202025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 172025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 17

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Jan 202025-01-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 272025-01-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 32025-02-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 102025-02-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 172025-02-17 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 242025-02-24 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC606
Mar 32025-03-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 102025-03-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 172025-03-17 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-24 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Maybe be, after all - I dont write web servers (btw, the PQ and JQ libraries doesnt seem to use the arena allocator, which makes the whole proposition a bit dubious, but lets say that its me being picky). What I meant was, that IMO the code is not very robust when dealing with memory allocations: 1. The "string builder" for example silently ignores allocation failures and just happily returns - https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/92762fb724a9035... 2. In what seems most of the places, the code simply doesnt check for allocation failures, which leads to overruns (just couple of examples): https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/92762fb724a9035... https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/92762fb724a9035...
In Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
Some free code review of the first file I clicked into - https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/92762fb724a9035... among other places should probably be doing the conditional "lexer->line++"; thing. Quite a weird decision to force all code paths to manually do that whenever a newline char is encountered. Could've at least made a "advance_maybe_newline(lexer);" or so. But I guess LLMs give you copy-paste garbage. Even the article of this thread says: > Just because code looks good and runs without errors doesn’t mean it’s actually doing the right thing.
In Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
What do you mean by "harder stuff"? What about an experimental DSL written in C with a recursive descent parser and a web server runtime that includes Lua, jq, a Postgres connection pool, mustache templates, request-based memory arena, database migrations and much more? 11,000+ lines of code with ~90% written by Claude in Cursor Composer. https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Frankly us "fanbois" are just a little sick and tired of being told that we must be terrible developers working on simple toys if we find any value from these tools!
In Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

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