oz123 / awesome-c

A curated list of awesome C frameworks, libraries, resources and other shiny things. Inspired by all the other awesome-... projects out there.

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awesome-c's Issues

cpu_features

Source.

Add uastar

It's a tiny A* path finder made by me. Documentation README.md. Under ZLIB license: https://github.com/ferreiradaselva/uastar

Duda I/O

Source. Would like an expert's opinion, as this isn't really my area.

AwesomeOpenSource

We are creating a github org for all awesome open source repos. I am working with a few individuals who are also managing their own awesome repos, and I think to gain more traction we need to work together. What are your thoughts about collectively moving your awesome repos to https://github.com/AwesomeOpenSource

The idea is that visibility for these repos would be increased due to more traffic to the org. What are your thoughts? Let me know if there is anything you'd like to discuss!

I know your repo isn't on GitHub anymore, but you should reconsider. We have alot of people here that want to help!

libsrt

Source.

Tarp

Worth considering. I really don't know the first, second or tenth thing about graphics though, so help would be appreciated.

Intel SPMD Program Compiler

Source.

stuff

I know it's on notabug now but I don't want to sign up

• http://cdecl.org
• libmpv (https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv)

Minimalist C libraries

From here. These appear good, but I need an expert's insight for some of these.

Numerical and Parallel resources

Numerical:

PETSc: The Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific computation.

SLEPc: The Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations.

Parallel:

OpenMPI -- Message passing interface implementation, and MPICH (which is also open sourced I believe).

Rename GPL-style licenses to conform to new SPDX designations

This applies to anything GPL-like. Links may also have to be fixed, but this is sed-able I think.

Announcing getAwesomeness()

I just created a repo, getAwesomeness.It gives developers an option to have a consolidated view on all of the awesome awesomeness. Please let me know if it helps or not.

zlib-ng

This seems good, but unclear how good, and how much better it is than mainline zlib.

Emacs extensions needed

While I am an Emacs guy, I'm not very aware of its extension-space, and would appreciate any and all suggestions for things I can include in the appropriate section.

I would definitely add uthash and jsmn

I find uthash awesome, maybe others too.
http://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/

And jsmn for JSON processing
http://zserge.com/jsmn.html

FSE

Two cool things here, but I'm not sure exactly how well-documented and reliable they are. I would love some feedback from people who know more.

XML section - suggestions welcome

Now, despite me leaving that (rather critical) Torvalds quotation at the section's head, XML is something people need to work with, and I'm sure that more than two libraries for it exist. Suggestions would be welcome.

Merge in suitable single-file libs

Stuff from here could be really good, but needs vetting.

Vim extensions needed

As an Emacs guy, I don't really know Vim at all. It would be nice to fill out the Vim extension section with C-specific Vim extensions. Thus, I need suggestions.

Add more to the Hashing section

I will use this issue as a thread for possible candidates. Suggestions welcome!

Replace bstrlib with its fork

This fork seems better in every way.

Single-file general mathematics libraries

Can be found here. I don't really know much about numerical or mathy computing, so I would appreciate some advice from an expert.

Bazel

Source.

Brotli

Source.

More resources are needed

Obviously, I'm just one guy, and I know relatively little of the C-verse. For anyone who does know cool C stuff, I'd love to hear about it - if it's good, I'll definitely include it.

Hoard

Source.

libcrc

Source.

Add libnih

h20

Source. Would like an expert to chime in relative how good this actually is, especially relative what's already on the list.

SpookyHash - which implementation?

SpookyHash is definitely good, but its reference implementation is C++. There are several C implementations:

• https://github.com/jibsen/spooky
• https://github.com/uxcn/spookyhash-c
• https://github.com/centaurean/spookyhash

Of these, the last gives me the most confidence, as it looks like it's been done properly, and has been (apparently) made thread-safe. However, the fact it relies on Premake for something that's seriously six files big is concerning.

Which, if any, of these, is worth including?

Add MATHC

I made this pure C math library (https://github.com/ferreiradaselva/mathc) under ZLIB. It's well documented (examples in README.md and reference in REFERENCE.md).

Libelf

Source.

Snappy

Source. This is especially questionable as it's in C++, although it has native bindings.

Single-file images libraries

Can be found here. As I don't know much about image processing in any language, I would like the input of an expert.

Single-file graphics libs

Can be found here (2D) and here (3D). As I don't know anything about either of these, I would like the opinion of an expert on their quality.

rpmalloc

Source.

Learning resources for C - suggestion and review

The Learning, Reference and Tutorial section is a bit threadbare in places, and also, given that I'm a relatively-intermediate C user, I'm not sure if the resources there are any good.

Thus, it'd be great if someone could:

1. Suggest more (both on and offline).
2. Tell me if any of the stuff up there is awful, and why.

For reasons of dodgy business practices and mistreatment of its staff, I will not link to Amazon. Thus, if you give me an Amazon link, it probably won't make it in unless I can find an alternative.

Single-file networking libs

Can be found here.

Single-file hardware interface libs

Can be found here. This is not really my area, so I would like someone who knows more about this to comment.

pblog

Source.

stuff

https://github.com/concurrencykit/ck
https://github.com/facebook/libphenom
http://repo.hu/projects/cchan/
https://github.com/joyent/http-parser

Buck

Source.

LCUI

This seems like a good idea, but might not be up to the standards of this project yet. I welcome input from more knowledgeable people.

libautoupdate

Source. Requires further investigation from people who are more Internet-literate than me.

Infer

This Infer here. Currently doesn't build correctly on Arch, so I can't evaluate it. Additionally, it hasn't been added to Neomake, so it may not be that good.

I would appreciate input from anyone who's used Infer, or is familiar with its innards.

Crypto libraries needed

The crypto section is a bit threadbare - more suggestions would be great.

Single-file audio libs

Can be found here. As I don't know anything about audio in any language, I would appreciate the insights of an expert.

dparser

This thing here looks good, but it hasn't had any commits for nearly a year, which is concerning.

Replace c4ocl

The following should be included instead:

• OCL-MLA
• oclkit

Single-file geometry math libs

Can be found here. As I'm not an expert, I would like the opinion of one on whether any of these libraries are any good.