Scheme HTTP server with transparent async
222k req/s
Details
- External ID
- 47568149
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Scheme HTTP server with transparent async
- Website domain
- hyper.dev
- Launched
- March 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7103321033210332
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- scheme http server with async
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a custom, high-performance Scheme HTTP server delivering 222k requests/second with transparent asynchronous I/O requires compiler engineering, low-level event loop design (epoll/kqueue), and deep systems runtime knowledge.
What it would actually take: This requires building or extending a Scheme runtime (e.g., Chez Scheme or Guile) with an event loop wrapping Linux epoll or FreeBSD kqueue. Transparent async requires first-class continuations, coroutines, or algebraic effects integrated directly into the language runtime's scheduler alongside zero-copy HTTP parsing (such as llhttp in C). This represents advanced systems programming and programming language design.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.
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