Show HN: Cwist; a hobby-grade C17 web framework that keeps your app simple

Category: web-framework

Tags: c, web-framework, wasm, http3, websocket, sqlite, performance, memory-safety

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

CWIST is a C17 web framework and application server that provides routing, middleware, sessions, and an embedded SQLite ORM across HTTP/1.1–3, WebSocket, and WebTransport, with the same app runnable natively, in WASI 0.2 edge runtimes, or inside the browser's Service Worker. It stands out for its aggressive performance benchmarks (including holding a million connections) and its rigorous memory-safety CI (ASan/UBSan, fuzzing, allocator gate).

Target audience: backend C/C++ developers, systems engineers, performance-focused web developers

Repository: https://github.com/c4punks/cwist · C · MIT · 23 stars

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