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24 alternatives to A pure ARM64 Assembly web server, now on Linux with CGI for no reason

This is ymawky, a now-dynamic web server written entirely in ARM64 Assembly. I've previously posted about ymawky here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587 In the past month and a half, I've made some pretty major improvements: I've added CGI scripting support, so the server now supports query strings and dynamic content; and I've fully ported ymawky to run on Linux, rather than macOS-only. In addition to GET/PUT/HEAD/DELETE/OPTIONS requests, because of CGI support ymawky also accepts POST requests (only to CGI resources for now). I've also updated…

Ymawky is a web server written entirely in ARM64 Assembly that runs on Linux. It handles standard HTTP requests including GET, PUT, HEAD, DELETE, and OPTIONS, and supports POST requests through CGI scripting for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning▲430

   This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

   May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A little web server in C▲178

   A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Hosting my website using my C web server▲303

   Custom web server for my blog. Contribute to cozis/BlogTech development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM▲255

   Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

   Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with syscalls▲103

   a brainfuck interpreter supporting linux syscalls with an example HTTP server - ajyoon/systemf

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks▲472

   Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…

   2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →

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   HTTP server written in x64 assembly (x86-64)▲12

   A minimalist HTTP server for Linux, written in x86_64 assembly - jcalvinowens/asmhttpd

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Distributed JMAP and IMAP Servers in Rust▲190

   I am happy to announce Stalwart JMAP [1], an open-source JSON Meta Application Protocol server that aims to be scalable, robust and secure. Some of its key features are: - JMAP Core, JMAP Mail and JMAP over WebSocket full compliance. - IMAP4 rev2/1 support via Stalwart IMAP, an imap-to-jmap proxy [2]. - Scalable and fault tolerant: consensus over Raft, node autodiscovery over gossip and read-only replicas. - RocksDB backend with full-text search support in 17 languages. - OAuth 2.0 authorization code and device authorization flows. - Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) message signing. -…

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ServBay▲399

   Hello HN, I’m one of the creators of ServBay. I built this because I got tired of the cognitive load required just to start coding. On my Mac, it was a fragile mix of Homebrew services and asdf conflicts. On Windows, managing PATH variables and fighting with Docker Desktop's resource usage was equally frustrating. I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed to support modern stacks (Go, Rust, Node, etc.). What it is: ServBay is a native local development environment for both macOS and Windows. It is not a wrapper around Docker or VMs. It bundles everything you need into…

   2024 · servbay.com · its alternatives →

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    Rust Web Framework▲488

    Hi everyone, I've been "funemployed" for a few months and with all that free time and idle hands I wrote a full web framework (think Rails, not Flask) for Rust. It's boring old MVC, has its own ORM, templates, background jobs, auth, websockets, migrations and more. If you're keen but don't feel like rewriting your app in a different language, Rwf has a WSGI server to run Django (or Flask) inside Rust [1], letting you migrate to Rust at your own pace without disrupting your website. I think Rust makes a great prototyping and deploy straight to production language. Now it has yet another…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    FastWSGI, an ultra-fast WSGI server for Python▲89

    An ultra fast WSGI server for Python 3. Contribute to jamesroberts/fastwsgi development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    My 486 Server▲255

    Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.

    2022 · 486servu.dy.fi · its alternatives →

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    Robyn – A fast, extensible async Python web server with a Rust runtime▲103

    Robyn is a Super Fast Async Python Web Framework with a Rust runtime. - sparckles/Robyn

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14SL
    Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler▲117

    2015 · zarkzork.com · its alternatives →

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    My embeddable C/C++ webserver▲84

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Yavy▲110

    Turn any website into an MCP server for AI

    Feb 2026 · yavy.dev · its alternatives →

17. 17UT
    unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi▲87

    Hey HN, I wanted to get more familiar with C programming, *nix socket programming and C compilation, so I wrote this "web" ""server"". It's running on a tiny SBC in my office, and there's as little as possible between you and it. Happy for you to try and break it, hopefully with something more interesting than a DoS though :) Please let me know if you find any issues.

    2025 · unsafehttp.benren.au · its alternatives →

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    A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc.▲224

    A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    MCP-stama – An ultra-fast Rust MCP server with no dependencies▲73

    An ultra-fast, single-binary MCP server written in Rust as a lightweight alternative to Node.js/Python. - StamManif/mcp-stama

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework▲128

    A modular web framework for C, inspired by kernel modules. Dynamically upload and compile C code at runtime to build REST APIs, WebSocket services, and more. Includes support for JSON (Jansson), SQLite, OpenSSL, and streaming large data efficiently. - joexbayer/c-web-modules

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CSS Gridish▲133

    Greetings, This is a link to our learning guide to make your own MCP server in C/C++ (with no other dependencies). If you wanted to make one from scratch but needed some insight into dealing with MCP messages: the I/O flow, JSON parsing, and request dispatch, grab the teaching version tagged mcp/teaching/v1.0.0 in the repository. The JSON parsing in C would have been a hurdle, but then there's this amusing story: Eric: "Let's create a helloWorld MCP server in C." Gemini: "That will be somewhat difficult, there are easier ways." Eric: "Why is it difficult??" (the second…

    2018 · ibm.github.io · its alternatives →

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    My platforming game written in C 89▲127

    I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage, and there is a lot of work to do. One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he felt people might find interesting how I don’t use any libraries for it. The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly. There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have to build those yourself. I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough, and I didn’t think I…

    2023 · zamfofex.neocities.org · its alternatives →

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    A Go web server with logging, tracing, and demo apps in a single file▲116

    A Go web server with built in logging, tracing, health check, and graceful shutdown. It also includes a few demo applications showing the Go HTML temple functionality. - GitHub - photonlines/Go-Web-Server: A Go web server with built in logging, tracing, health check, and graceful shutdown. It also i

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I work on this library because I like the simplicity of CGI and enjoy building things with C++. It is based on asio and my own implementation of FastCGI, and it works on both Linux and Windows. I have just released the new version and created a simple live demo that you can check out here: https://asyncgi-guestbook.eelnet.org

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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