Rhubarb
C89 Libraries in Latin
Details
- External ID
- 46088823
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rhubarb
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 29, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5152838427947598
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Considering all the supply chain dependencies lately I've been building a collection of C89 libraries to make zero dependency stuff. For fun I have also been programming it in latin! Still very much in progress.
Enrichment
- Theme
- curated developer directories and resources
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- c89 libraries written in latin
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Handcrafting zero-dependency C89 libraries with Latin identifiers requires specialized low-level systems programming expertise, strict compliance with the C89 standard, and deep Latin linguistic knowledge.
What it would actually take: Developing strict ANSI C (C89) libraries without standard library bloat requires implementing custom memory allocators, data structures, and POSIX/Win32 system call wrappers from scratch. It requires low-level systems C expertise, cross-platform compilation toolchain knowledge, and classical Latin translation skills.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Aquinas OS, Eskil Steenberg's C89 libraries
Concerns raised: Claude has rough edges with non-Latin characters, Unclear practical benefit vs. autopilot reading reduction, Project described as 'AI slop' and 'fundamentally insane', Concerns about SABAW1.md and SABAW2.md files
Feature requests: Have Claude read show_bible.md during onboarding
Competitors
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Attention rank: #26 of 42 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.
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