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by maxpert 173 days ago
I did a similar thing few days back just not with NATS protocol (Made it pure websocket based), and with rust. Couple of questions:

- Where did you get the machine to test your server on?

- Why did you end up going with zig?

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Anyone can buy a 9950x on Amazon or any tech store, it's consumer hardware.
Given that this entire project is a single[1] vibe-coded commit, I really doubt the author bothered buying hardware to test it.

[1]: https://github.com/bustermq/bustermq/commits/master/

Who cares whether it’s vibe coded ? As long as it’s good and well maintained over time of course.

Maybe there is a niche market for artisanal software engineering where real humans make holes in punchcards, but I would not bet.

> Who cares whether it’s vibe coded ? As long as it’s good and well maintained over time of course

Maybe 12 hours after the first commit is a bit early to be confident about that…

> Maybe there is a niche market for artisanal software engineering where real humans make holes in punchcards, but I would not bet

Or maybe there exist a world between punchcards and evening AI slop “projects”, who knows.

he’s been working on it for 2 weeks, as he said somewhere else
And he later said that he doesn't intent to maintain it:

> And as what it is, not a nats replacement, certainly dont have the time to maintain that this way

My personal rig and Zig because I worked with it for a little more than a year. It was a fun test to do.
I'm also building a network server with thread-per-core and io_uring, except it's a web server, it's written in Rust, and io_uring is provided by a fork of Monoio runtime (I forked it to make it work with Windows and FreeBSD).