What does HackerNews think of lwan?

Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server

Language: C

#61 in C
#24 in HTTP
#10 in Library
Show HN: Host a Website in the URL | Sep 2023
Absolutely useless fun tech demos are the best kind of demos

https://github.com/lpereira/lwan - presume this is the web server library you're referring to? Very cool.

Show HN: LEAR – A simple and fast HTTP server to serve static resources | Dec 2018
It's great to see people still using C to make web servers !

But can you clarify what are the "state-of-the-art technologies and solutions?"

I just skim the project and think this is not a lot better in term of performance than other servers like Nginx or H2O. There is also Lwan[0], which uses epoll too and has a cool coroutine, router implementation (I implemented a framework for Kotlin/Native on top of it[1]).

Another framework having really fast and fancy technologies in it is Seastar[2]. I think implementing kernel bypass, AIO, DPSK stuff makes it the fastest web server around currently. May be you can try to push the boundary with those things, SPDK, aggressive polling, fast router...?

[0]: https://github.com/lpereira/lwan [1]: https://github.com/KwangIO/kwang [2]: https://github.com/scylladb/seastar

H2O – an optimized HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2 | May 2015
How does it compare to lwan?

https://github.com/lpereira/lwan