cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/34733394

Snac (AKA Snac2) is a minimal microblogging ActivityPub instance written in C.

Features (from its Codeberg repo):

  • Lightweight, minimal dependencies
  • Extensive support of ActivityPub operations, e.g. write public notes, follow users, be followed, reply to the notes of others, admire wonderful content (like or boost), write private messages…
  • Multiuser
  • Mastodon API support, so Mastodon-compatible apps can be used
  • Simple but effective web interface
  • Easily-accessed MUTE button to silence morons
  • Tested interoperability with related software
  • No database needed
  • Totally JavaScript-free
  • No cookies either
  • Not much bullshit
  • sugoidogo@discuss.online
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    10 days ago

    C is also faster than JavaScript, uses less memory, and memory safety isn’t impossible in C either. I wouldn’t consider a scripting language to even be a choice for writing a backend server if I can use a compiled language instead.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      memory safety isn’t impossible in C

      In practice it is.

      C is also faster than JavaScript, uses less memory, I wouldn’t consider a scripting language to even be a choice for writing a backend server if I can use a compiled language instead.

      Neat.