The companion webwords git repo lives here.
Webwords now supports 42 programming languages. TimeHexOn assisted with this milestone over 2 days using a code agent tool.
42 languages. Same as the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Coincidence? Probably. But each implementation solves the exact same problem in completely different ways.
the spec
Every implementation does exactly the same thing:
- Accept two query parameters: keyword and target
- Fetch the content from the target URI
- Search for the keyword in that content
- Return true or false as plain text
testing webwords
To test any implementation, try searching for potato on Remarkbox:
curl "http://localhost:31337/?keyword=potato&target=https://www.remarkbox.com"
Returns true because potato exists on Remarkbox.
the implementations
Native HTTP Server Implementations (33 languages)
Wrapper-Based Implementations (9 languages)
docker deployment
Every implementation ships with a Dockerfile:
cd language-directory
docker build -t webwords-language .
docker run -d -p 31337:31337 webwords-language
the makefile system
The project includes a comprehensive Makefile that manages all 42 implementations:
make build-all # Build all 42 Docker images
make test-all # Test all implementations concurrently
make benchmark LANG=python # Benchmark a specific language
make help # Show all available commands
Each language has individual targets:
make build-python # Build Python implementation
make serve-python # Run Python container on port 31337
make functional-test-python # Test with potato/lemon cases
make clean-python # Stop and remove container
The testing process validates that each implementation correctly returns true when searching for potato on remarkbox.com and false when searching for lemon.
what's next
Is the project complete at 42 languages? What happens next?
If you run make build-all & fill up your filesystem, check out unpotato webwords: cleaning up btrfs docker volumes.