Nibble
Details
- External ID
- 48130186
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Nibble
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 102
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9111470113085622
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
An attempt at a single pass LLVM frontend in ~3000 lines of C without external dependencies, malloc, or an AST. Included are some graphical examples. The IR isn't perfect, and the README touches on one particular downfall
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Retail & commerce
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- —
- Normalized one-liner
- snack marketplace
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing a dependency-free, zero-malloc, single-pass LLVM IR compiler frontend in C is a mastery-level systems and compiler engineering challenge.
What it would actually take: This project requires deep compiler engineering knowledge to parse grammar directly into valid LLVM Intermediate Representation without building an intermediate Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). It involves custom symbol table management on a fixed stack or static arena without `malloc`, manual SSA (Static Single Assignment) form construction on the fly, and raw LLVM IR text or bitcode emission within roughly 3,000 lines of highly constrained C.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Firefox reader mode, Plan 9's Glenda
Concerns raised: Nothing special for non-students, Overwhelming sensory elements cause tab-closing instinct
Feature requests: Hide distracting elements feature, Better sensory processing accommodation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 806 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #77 of 807 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 195 days after the earliest competitor.
- Flint · hn · 2026-08-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Iron · hn · 2026-05-27 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- repkgs · github · 2026-09-10 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Crespo · hn · 2026-06-22 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Tiny-vLLM · hn · 2026-05-29 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AX · github · 2026-09-22 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- nix-compact · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Nønos · hn · 2025-12-23 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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