# jorisvink/kore

An easy to use, scalable and secure web application framework for writing web APIs in C or Python. || This is a read-only mirror, please see https://kore.io/mail and https://kore.io/source for information on how to contribute via the mailing lists.

Repository: https://github.com/jorisvink/kore
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kore
Homepage: https://kore.io
Language: C
License: ISC
License Family: permissive
Topics: c, high-performance, kore, framework, web-development, pgsql, tls, http
Last push: 2026-08-18T12:15:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4837, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3823, forks 321 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:21.803763+00:00)

## What it is
Kore is an easy-to-use, scalable web application framework for writing web APIs and concurrent web processes in C or Python. It is secure by default, with privilege separation, sandboxed worker processes (seccomp/pledge), TLS enabled by default, and an event-driven architecture with per-CPU workers.

## Use cases
- write a high-performance web API in C
- build a secure HTTPS server with automatic X509 certificates via ACME
- serve websockets in a lightweight C backend
- run a sandboxed web application with seccomp/pledge isolation
- add Python page handlers to a C web server
- build a web service with async PostgreSQL support
- deploy a web app as a single binary or dynamic library

## When to choose
- you need a fast, minimal web server in C with strong security defaults
- you want privilege separation and OS-level sandboxing for a web service
- you target Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or macOS on x64/arm/aarch64
- you need TLS, websockets, and hot module reloading out of the box

## When to avoid
- you want a large ecosystem of middleware and third-party packages
- your team primarily works in high-level languages like JavaScript or Go
- you need rapid prototyping over raw performance and security hardening
- you require platforms or architectures outside Linux/BSD/macOS x64/arm

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: stable
- function: web-framework, http-server, websocket, api-framework, security
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, security
- platform: bsd, c, python
- tags: high-performance, privilege-separation, seccomp, tls, acme, event-driven, pgsql, sandboxed-workers, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- jorisvink/kore (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:21.803763+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:26:23.681708+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jorisvink/kore (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:21.803763+00:00, sha d8edfae439d9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.