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Sili - a cross-platform standard library for modern C programming
https://github.com/eimamei/sili
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Sili - a cross-platform standard library for modern C programming
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eimamei/sili
- Owner: EimaMei
- License: zlib
- Created: 2023-05-21T20:39:15.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-01-12T13:53:40.000Z (21 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-22T04:07:25.236Z (11 days ago)
- Topics: c, c-programming, modern-c, sili, single-header-file, standard-library, stl
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.62 MB
- Stars: 99
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Sili
Sili is a cross-platform standard library for modern C99 programming, providing
many new features, improvements and fixes to the language's standard libraries,
while still adhering to the main principles and appeals of C.
# Main goals
## Modernize C
The project aims to modernize C by implementing a proper standard library that is
more feature-rich and understandable to read and write, while also containing a
lot of quality of life changes for better readability and safety. It serves
as a lighter alternative to the bloated C++ STL.
## Performance & flexibility
Sili strives to strike a balance between having great performance and flexibility
that provide many options for developers when using the library.
## Portability
`sili.h` is a single-header library, allowing for easy integration into any project.
Furthermore, sili is designed to be cross-platform, supporting any OS that has a
working C99 compiler.
# Some of the features present in the library
- Architecture/OS/Compiler/Standard indentification macros (`SI_CPU_X86`,
`SI_SYSTEM_WINDOWS`, `SI_COMPILER_CLANG`, `SI_STANDARD_C99`, `SI_STANDARD_ANSI`
etc).
- Useful macros (`typeof()`, `SI_ASSERT`/`SI_STATIC_ASSERT`, `SI_BIT`, `foreach` etc).
- Robust string implementation (`siString`, fully compatible with `char*`).
- Better arrays (`siArray()`, compatible with other C arrays).
- `char` specific functions (`si_charToLower`, `si_charIsSpace`, `si_hexDigitToInt` etc).
- Hashtable functions (`si_hashtableMakeReserve`, `si_hashtableGetWithHash`, `si_hashtableSet`)
- Path related functions (`si_pathExists`, `si_pathCopy`, `si_pathGetFullname` etc).
- A cross-platform file IO functions (`si_fileOpen`, `si_fileReadContents`,
`si_fileWriteLineAt` etc).
- `siOptional` type similar to `std::optional`.
- Cross-platform multi-thread support (`si_threadCreate`, `si_threadStart`, `si_threadJoin`).
- Easy to use benchmarking functions to check performance (`si_benchmarkRunsPerLoop`,
`si_benchmarkExecutesPerMs`, `si_benchmarkLoopsAvg` etc).
- An allocator system, making allocations 3x faster than the traditional `malloc`/`free`.
- A general-use hash table.
- Unicode functions (`si_utf8Decode`, `si_utf8ToUtf16String`, `si_utf16ToUtf8String`).
- Bit manipulation funcionts (`si_numCountBitsU32`, `si_numRotateLeft`, `si_bytesToNumArr`,
`SI_NUM_BIT_SET` etc).
- DLL function loading (`si_dllLoad`, `si_dllProcAddress`).
- Custom `printf` implementation, which includes C23 and new specifiers, as well
as better cross-platform support (`%ll` and `%l` both equal to `i64`).
# Examples
Examples of most (but definitely not all) sili's features are utilized in the
`examples` folder.