cixl

As far as books go; K&R contains a lot of wisdom despite it's apparent simplicity; and the language hasn't really changed that much since last edition. But to answer some of your questions: CMake is by far the most convenient build tool I've come across for C so far, the link below will give you an idea of how it looks. I find linters mostly a waste of time , but I run all my tests through valgrind before committing; I don't miss programming in C without valgrind at all; it's also an excellent profiler in combination with KCacheGrind. For testing, simple functions and bit of macro magic on top goes pretty far; C programmers tend to value simplicity, you won't find that many epic unit testing adventure frameworks out there. clang or gcc doesn't really matter, I prefer clang's error messages; and both support GNU extensions, which solve mos

Will recommending my own project get me hell-voted? Cixl is a straight forward 3-stage (parse/compile/eval) interpreter that is designed to be as fast as possible without compromising on simplicity, transparency and flexibility. The codebase has no external dependencies and is currently hovering around 7 kloc including tests and standard library. There are some articles explaining design decisions, but I've been mostly busy with code. The code should be perfectly readable though, and contains plenty of good ideas distilled from 32 years of daily practice. https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/tree/master/devlog

It's a work in progress, but this is the longest piece of code so far. It's the start of a simple booking system. https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl/blob/master/examples/bo...

Agreed, it needs momentum to keep going and that's where I could use some help right now. But it also becomes less of a struggle since I don't have to constantly invent the ground I'm walking on, and since it's now getting to the point where interesting programs are becoming possible. As an example, adding symbol support (https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl#symbols) took about 30mins.