CHChrisRR·Jan 6, 2025Submission
Ceedling v1.0 released – Ruby-based unit testing and build system for C projects
3 points · Open discussionThrowTheSwitch
Ceedling
Ruby2021–2025
ThrowTheSwitch / Ceedling
Ceedling
Unit testing and build system for C projects
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
865GitHub stars
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What it is
Unit testing and build system for C projects
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThis is very situational, but I have recently been part of a project that does a lot of C server-side development and we have found that static linking our non-glibc dependencies has really improved our developer experience. Using ceedling's dependency plugin[1] and producing a single "statically" linked library has made our C development much closer to using a language with a more modern package manager. Don't get me wrong, if I was trying to distribute binaries to machines I didn't control I'd definitely be willing to invest in the Linux packaging "fun", but for a server-side application it's been a good choice for our team overall.
[1] https://github.com/ThrowTheSwitch/Ceedling/tree/master/plugi...
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