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

13 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 12 comments · first 2025-01-26 · latest 2025-03-20

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  1. …from the Makefile, but it runs a number of commands from the Makefile, eg, make test-leaks : https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/blob/main/.github/wo...
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  2. …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…
  3. 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…
  4. …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…
  5. This is 11,682 lines of C (and not including some Lua and Python scripts) according to cloc: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl It's a pipeline-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua, jq and mustache templates. I'd say it's…
  6. I vibe coded this entire DSL, changing syntax and grammar while following my whimsy: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-03-01 · in Vibe Coding and the Future of Software Engineering
  7. …order: WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-24 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
  8. …WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-19 · in My LLM codegen workflow
  9. …WebDSL, fast C-based pipeline-driven DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Search Input Query, a search input query parser and React component: https://github.com/williamcotton/search-input-…
  10. Do your snippets write this kind of boilerplate? https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl/commit/34862739f6fe9... I may have tweaked a couple of things in that (and refactored a hell of a lot since) but here's a Python script that I…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-10 · in No AI December Reflections
  11. I took this approach with this: https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl I didn’t even put that much effort into defining the grammar, I just sort of let my fancy take flight. Which is a wild headspace to be in when writing a DSL in C with…
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-02-03 · in Vibe Coding
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    Show HN: WebDSL – A fast C-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq
    story by williamcotton · 2025-01-28 · 0 comments
  13. https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl Made almost entirely with Cursor and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. 11k lines of C and counting.
    comment by williamcotton · 2025-01-26 · in When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell