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Show HN: Libgoc – Go-like CSP-style HTTP client/server library for C

divs1210 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:00:37 +0000

Hi! I'm the author of libgoc.

libgoc provides a Go - like runtime in portable C.

It is basically C + GC + threadpools + goroutines + channels + goroutine-aware-mutexes.

It's built on top of:

- Boehm GC

- libuv for async I/O and cross-platform threading primitives

- minicoro for cross-platform coroutines

- picohttp as the HTTP parser for goc_http

The API is stable at this point.

Prebuilt static binaries are available for Linux / Mac / Windows.

I plan to make typesafe C++ / Rust wrappers for this at some point.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634432

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New comment by divs1210 in "Libgoc: A Go-style CSP concurrency runtime for C"

divs1210 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:01:32 +0000

Libgoc is a Go-style CSP concurrency runtime for C: threadpools, stackful coroutines, channels, select, async I/O, and garbage collection in one coherent API.

Libgoc: A Go-style CSP concurrency runtime for C

divs1210 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:01:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/divs1210/libgoc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407284

Points: 3

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New comment by divs1210 in "Importance of context management in AI NPCs"

divs1210 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:30:17 +0000

I have a feeling that Half Life 3 will have groundbreaking AI NPCs.

New comment by divs1210 in "Half-Life"

divs1210 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:47:23 +0000

Half Life is my favorite game franchise of all time.

Played all the canon games and SO MANY mods.

Still obsessed with it.

New comment by divs1210 in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines"

divs1210 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:22:26 +0000

Neat project!

By the way, to see a great example of how a modern game can be made using the classic Half Life engine, look at the fan made game Half Life: Echoes [1].

It actually looks pretty decent, and the gameplay is top notch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQKi6vGX8U

New comment by divs1210 in "A Minecraft server written in COBOL"

divs1210 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 17:48:10 +0000

Same as dynamically typed vs statically typed languages.

New comment by divs1210 in "Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker"

divs1210 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:38:51 +0000

Easy to write bugs in unsafe languages like C / C++.

Rust makes memory management explicit, hence eliminating those bugs. But it also shows how hard memory management actually is.

Systems programming languages like this should be used sparingly, only for stuff like device drivers, OSs and VMs.

Any general purpose programming language should be garbage collected.

New comment by divs1210 in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"

divs1210 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:05:25 +0000

Pinewood Derby vibes

New comment by divs1210 in "John Carmack on inlined code (2014)"

divs1210 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 14:20:24 +0000

A person of culture, I see.

Electric Monks were made for a reason.

Surprisingly pertinent to the current discussion.

New comment by divs1210 in "Rewriting Rust: A Response"

divs1210 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:44:35 +0000

This discussion is seriously lacking in references to Koka language[0].

Koka is memory safe without using traditional GC, has effects, and is pretty cool over all.

[0] https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html

New comment by divs1210 in "What Is a Particle? (2020)"

divs1210 — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:13:31 +0000

Particle spin explained:

Imagine a ball that’s rotating,

Except it’s not a ball, and

It’s not rotating.

(popular particle physics meme)

From what I understand of QFT, the Universe is made of fields of different types, and a “fundamental particle” is just an excitation (wave) in the corresponding field.

For example, a photon is a wave in the universal electromagnetic field, A charm quark is a wave in the universal charm quark field, etc.

I’m not a trained physicist, so I might be wildly wrong.

New comment by divs1210 in "Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts"

divs1210 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:56:32 +0000

Thanks for the explanation.

That quote is extremely terse and would have taken a considerable amount of time to understand.

New comment by divs1210 in "Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system"

divs1210 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:48:58 +0000

Yes! I have played with Shen before.

IIRC the type checker is literally a Prolog.

New comment by divs1210 in "Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system"

divs1210 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 23:30:41 +0000

commenting for future reference.

that's a great quote.

New comment by divs1210 in "Grayscale was unreasonably denied its Bitcoin ETF, court rules"

divs1210 — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:49:52 +0000

The SEC chief is Gary Gensler who used to teach a Cryptocurrency course at Harvard...

New comment by divs1210 in "Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly"

divs1210 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 17:45:48 +0000

what about linux?

New comment by divs1210 in "A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]"

divs1210 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:46:27 +0000

Luminus has a successor called Kit.

New comment by divs1210 in "(next Rich)"

divs1210 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:49:43 +0000

Are you complaining he used a word you weren't familiar with?

New comment by divs1210 in "The Dome: A simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics (2005)"

divs1210 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:12:56 +0000

> merely shining a light on the object would give it a nudge

so you're saying you would change the outcome by measuring the system?