awesome-c

There's an awesome C list of libraries and frameworks [1]. Pick one that suits your needs. Time and again folks say such and such isn't suitable tool to do something. While some of those admonitions are true, if you're doing something to learn, feel free to ignore those and enjoy your learning. There're folks who learn assembly even today and learn a great deal of other things than assembly and have fun too. As for C, it'd recommend most folks know the basics since many "modern" languages totally don't teach you those, and in fact hide the details from you that things feel like magic to you eventually if you keep using these high-level languages. This is okay as long as you can know the basics and map them back when needed. [1]: https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c

You mean besides https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c ??

Even so, github does have a ton of very very popular C libraries(like https://github.com/nothings/stb). I was bringing up the OS provided ones since they claimed not to be able to find any. My main point is that it is patently absurd to claim that they could not find C libraries. Further: https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c as another example of the many many C libraries you could find.

Can't vouch for any in particular, but they do exist. https://github.com/oz123/awesome-c#string-manipulation

I think books that teach through projects is a relatively recent trend. C is too old for that, and already phased out of mainstream (in the sense of everyone's daily programming language) long before the trend picked up. There still exist such books. C is a system programming langugage so you have to look in that direction. There is a compiler book called "Game Scripting Mastery", which was an early 200X book that holds your hand through making a working Virtual Machine of a C-like scripting language. It is written in C and has the full code for that Virtual Machine. This is definitely a "learn-by-project" book. I think you can probably find more examples by looking in that direction. There is another trick: Browse the websites of top 20 CS universities and find all their system programming labs. You will guarantee to find many mid-size C

> I'm curious if there is other software around rewritten in pure C. Can't answer for now, but check next awesome lists: • AWESOME C — https://github.com/Bfgeshka/awesome-c • AWESOME C — https://github.com/kozross/awesome-c | mirror — https://notabug.org/koz.ross/awesome-c • AWESOME C — https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-c ∗ AWESOME C++ — https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp

> Your example of better strings is good, but why not lists and hashes as language elements? Probably because there are many ways to implement data structures, for very specific, and entirely different use cases. C gives you the minimum that allows you to build those according to your own specific needs. It would be very difficult or perhaps even impossible to come up with an implementation that suits everyone's specific cases. Perhaps we could do it by giving the users the option to pick, but then the language would be really huge, it would quickly become bloated. Think about how many ways one could implement a hash table! I like and use ohash extensively though, along with stuff from sys/queue.h. For hash tables, uthash seems to be popular, too. > If not in the language directly, then ok in the library. But speaking of the library, why

Looks impressive. However, since Nim has such an easy C/C++ FFI you have to consider also all C and C++ APIs. That looks superior even to Go, unless Go's C FFI is as easy as Nim's. https://github.com/kozross/awesome-c https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-c https://cpp.libhunt.com/ https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp