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uip
- Show HN: MicroTCP, a minimal TCP/IP stack
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I need to create a UDP server using uIP library on LPC1768. could you please share a code example with me or lead me to write it myself? thank you so much
As the other commenter pointed out, uIP seems to be from 9 years ago. From the issues in the project, I found it is part of Contiki. Are you developing using Contiki?
- Need help to use uIP library for running UDP on LPC1768
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An HTTP server in a single .c file
The CPU architecture is actually the least of your concerns there—I'm pretty sure qemu-user can run httpdito on ARM with less than an order of magnitude performance overhead. There are a lot of embedded systems where an HTTP transaction per second per MHz would be more than sufficient.
The bigger problem is that the Raspberry Pico is a dual-core Cortex-M0+, which doesn't have an MMU, so it can't run Linux and especially can't handle fork(). But httpdito is basically scripting the Linux system call interface in assembly language—it needs to run on top of a filesystem, an implementation of multitasking that provides allocation of different memory to different tasks, and a TCP/IP stack. Any one of these is probably a larger amount of complexity than the 296 CPU instructions in httpdito.
The smallest TCP/IP stack I know of is Adam Dunkels's uIP. Running `sloccount .` in uip/uip cloned from https://github.com/adamdunkels/uip gives a count of 2796 lines of source code ("generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'."). uIP can run successfully on systems with as little as 2KiB of RAM, as long as you have somewhere else to put the code, but for most uses lwIP is a better choice; it minimally needs 10KiB or so. uIP is part of Dunkels's Contiki, which includes a fairly full-featured web server and a somewhat less-full-featured browser. I think he got both the server and the browser to run in 16KiB of RAM on a Commodore PET, but not at the same time.
(twIP http://dunkels.com/adam/twip.html is only 139 bytes of C source but doesn't support TCP or any physical-layer protocol such as Ethernet, PPP,or SLIP.)
However, Adam Dunkels has also written Miniweb http://dunkels.com/adam/miniweb/, which implements HTTP and enough of TCP and IP to support it, in 400 lines of C. It needs at least 30 bytes of RAM. Like twIP, it doesn't provide a physical layer. But that's solvable.
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uIP's network device driver (and Contiki's version of uIP)
I am currently reviewing existing TCP/IP stacks for microcontrollers, and in particular uIP.
bashttpd
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[DISCUSSION] What if BASH could be used as a web server interpreter?
I've had https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd/blob/master/bashttpd bookmarked for a while... not sure if it address:
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Zig: The Modern Alternative to C
In a way I feel that everything is an alternative to everything and at the same time nothing is.
As you said it all depends on the circumstances. But I don't really see Zig competing with Go. They both can do mostly the same things, but they both approach them from quite a different sides.
For example bash is being used in:
- gaming (https://github.com/JosefZIla/bash2048)
- web apps (https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd)
- networking
- CLIs
- distributed systems (https://github.com/frameable/aviary.sh)
- crypto (https://armedia.com/blog/blockchain-program-written-bash/ https://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools)
- systems programming (https://github.com/damphat/kv-bash)
- language tooling
Some of those make more sense than others. However we all talk about a mythical general case. For every language there are niches that are covered by it more significantly. For Go it would probably be web backend. It doesn't mean it is only suited to this one niche, it is used in everything. In general it is used there more. I don't believe that Rust sees the most use in the same niche to the same order that Go sees it.
Is Rust or Zig an alternative to php, awk or Lisp? In practice I don't really think so.
I guess it all depends on one's definition of "alternative". I don't think that a statistical Go programmer would see Zig as a real alternative. Statistical C programmer might see it as a Go alternative, but that probably would not be a question he would ask.
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Examples of cool || non-standard || "simply insane" bash stuff?
https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd - httpd implementation in bash
- Bashing the Bash – Replacing Shell Scripts with Python
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Did you know? Perl is the tenth most in-demand programming language in 2021.
Even bash, awk, and sed can do it.
- An HTTP server in a single .c file
What are some alternatives?
darkhttpd - When you need a web server in a hurry.
contiki-ng - Contiki-NG: The OS for Next Generation IoT Devices
Bash-web-server - A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...
microtcp - A minimal TCP/IP stack
awk-webserver - A simple webserver, written in GNU awk, that supports directory listing and download of file from the directory where it is launched
publictext - TEXT://PROTOCOL SERVER
sed-httpd - HTTP daemon written in SED
stoneknifeforth - a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation
winner - Winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest
PiBluetoothMidSetup - Turn a raspberry pi into a Bluetooth Midi device