Hydrogen
Infrastructure
server framework
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Design: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Licensed under copyleft MPL
From 1 comment
I like the fact that you chose MPL. Not enough people are using copyleft these days. :D
cyphar on HN
Useful for high-performance concurrent servers
From 2 comments
Alright, when would I want to use this? It reads like I would use it for a high-performance and safe network daemon of some kind. So basically it could be used as the lowest…
Svenstaro on HNHappy to see projects like this pop up! As a long-time go user, these types of fundamental projects really are what drove the community early on.
bradhe on HN
Objections
Name conflicts with the Hydrogen drum machine project
From 1 comment
In software context, for me, the name is taken. ``` Hydrogen: advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux ``` And a very good one, with a long road in the back.…
txutxu on HN
Fixed epoll-only design; not cross-platform like mio
From 2 comments
Thanks, but it only uses epoll :) mio is a crate that offers more platform agnostic async I/O.
nathansizemore on HNOf course! Well, hyper is a lib for dealing with the HTTP protocol. If being cross platform did not matter, hyper could be build atop of this. I did not go the route of mio…
nathansizemore on HN
Send API may lose partial writes on EAGAIN; receive side allocates memory
From 1 comment
Just some comments from looking very briefly at it: The send API lets me wonder how it copes when the socket only allows to send half a frame and then returns EAGAIN/WOULDBLOCK?…
Matthias247 on HN
Ecosystem fragmentation of Rust async I/O libraries
From 2 comments
Why not Boost? / Why not libuv? Why not EventMachine? / Why not Celluloid? Why not Twisted? / Why not gevent? This is a really sad situation unfortunately. I was hoping Rust…
15155 on HN> To preempt: a systems language shouldn't dictate these high-level matters But you cited a whole bunch of languages that do dictate this. Those languages don't have those…
pcwalton on HN
Requests
Compare with Hyper and Mio
From 1 comment
May I ask, Why not Hyper? Why not Mio? Don't misunderstand, I'm all for competing implementations. I just feel like it would be helpful to lay out a comparison for everyone…
yazaddaruvala on HN
Stay compatible with mio's interface
From 1 comment
Is it possible to stay compatible with mio's interface, perhaps via something layered on top?
pcwalton on HN
Pick a more descriptive name
From 2 comments
What about a proper, useful name that hints to the functionality? "libhttepoll" (because built on epoll)?
gkya on HNTHIS. What is with the stupid single noun names that mean nothing? It may be trendy but it's useless..
zodPod on HN
Questions
Why not use Hyper or Mio?
From 1 comment
May I ask, Why not Hyper? Why not Mio? Don't misunderstand, I'm all for competing implementations. I just feel like it would be helpful to lay out a comparison for everyone…
yazaddaruvala on HN
Can other event notification backends like libev or kqueue be swapped in?
From 1 comment
Is it built such that a different event notification thing such as libev, libevent, kqueue could be swapped in without too much effort? Well, it's not even that much code.. looks…
loonattic on HN
Is the framework suitable for something like an IRC server?
From 1 comment
Alright, when would I want to use this? It reads like I would use it for a high-performance and safe network daemon of some kind. So basically it could be used as the lowest…
Svenstaro on HN
Alternatives named
Mio
From 1 comment
May I ask, Why not Hyper? Why not Mio? Don't misunderstand, I'm all for competing implementations. I just feel like it would be helpful to lay out a comparison for everyone…
yazaddaruvala on HN
Hyper
From 1 comment
May I ask, Why not Hyper? Why not Mio? Don't misunderstand, I'm all for competing implementations. I just feel like it would be helpful to lay out a comparison for everyone…
yazaddaruvala on HN
Ranch
From 1 comment
So i assume this is similar to Ranch in Erlang ?
dberg on HN
libuv
From 1 comment
Why not Boost? / Why not libuv? Why not EventMachine? / Why not Celluloid? Why not Twisted? / Why not gevent? This is a really sad situation unfortunately. I was hoping Rust…
15155 on HN
fasthttp
From 1 comment
> To preempt: a systems language shouldn't dictate these high-level matters But you cited a whole bunch of languages that do dictate this. Those languages don't have those…
pcwalton on HN