C/C++

For all the scripting addicts out there, this is the language without a substr function (but with razor-sharp1 memory management).

Gosh, it’s been ages.

Resources:

Date Category Link Notes
2024 GUI luigi

a single-header GUI library for Win32, X11, and Essence

clay

High-performance 2D UI layout library with a flex-box model, zero dependencies, and WASM support

slint

a declarative GUI toolkit to build native user interfaces for Rust, C++, or JavaScript

full-beans

a lightweight microui and canvas library

fenster

provides a minimal way to create a cross-platform 2D canvas with input and audio support

Libraries rusty.hpp

an experimental Rust-like borrow checker

cpr

A C++ HTTP library inspired on Requests

cr_task.h

a single-header library for cooperative multitasking

webview

Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++

Web blogtech

a minimal web server designed for robustness and hosting static content.

2023 Cross-Platform w2c2

translates WebAssembly modules to C

2022 Libraries picolibc

a standard C library for embedded systems with limited RAM

2021 Cross-Platform redbean

sheer single-executable and zip wizardry

Data twemproxy (nutcracker)

a Redis and memcached proxy for managing concurrent connections

Graphics LVGL

an impressive library for embedded devices

2020 Libraries EnTT

a game-oriented library that provides an entity-component system

2018 Data Sparser

a high-speed JSON, Avro and Parquet parser

Web Ultralight

a WebKit/Chromium subset for embedded development

2013 Libraries Cello

an impressive higher-order programming library

Web Rapthers

a modern web framework written in pure C.

Duda

another web framework that embeds an epoll-based HTTP server into the resulting executable. I don’t think you can do REST services any faster.


  1. As in, it cuts deep when you don’t manage it. ↩︎

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