Cake
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 5, 2025first mention
Mar 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“like https://github.com/evilsocket/cake but massive”
“cake[0] might interest you. Basically transpiles C into C89.”
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“you can use something like Cake”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I've significantly improved Cake's flow analysis.”
“Please check out Cake!”
one of the founderson “Pulley is shutting down and will cease all operation…”
“CAKE, an open-source (AGPL-3.0) RAG framework built on Elixir/OTP.”
senior Elixir engineer seeking workon “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)”
“Most recently built CAKE, an AI-powered document search and Q&A tool”
backend/distributed systems engineer, 5+ years production Elixir, job seeking
Threads where it came up
- Cake static analysis for C: ownership, nullability and initialization 1 mention
- Pulley is shutting down and will cease all operations and services on Dec 8th 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) 1 mention
- item 48662276 1 mention
- How to Turn Anything into a Router 1 mention
- Local LLM by Ente 1 mention
Also written as CAKE, cake. Data: cake.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“even while using SQM CAKE for managing buffers”
“like https://github.com/evilsocket/cake but massive”
“cake[0] might interest you. Basically transpiles C into C89.”
“you can use something like Cake”