Sane C++ Libraries

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Sane C++ Libraries is a set of C++ platform abstraction libraries for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Sane Cpp

✅ Fast compile times
✅ Bloat free
✅ Simple readable code
✅ Easy to integrate
⛔️ No C++ Standard Library / Exceptions / RTTI
⛔️ No third party dependencies (prefer OS API)

Visit the documentation website for more information.

Libraries

Library	Description
Algorithms	🟥 Placeholder library where templated algorithms will be placed
Async	🟨 Async I/O (files, sockets, timers, processes, fs events, threads wake-up)
Async Streams	🟨 Async Streams reads and write data concurrently from async sources to destinations
Build	🟨 Minimal build system where builds are described in C++
Containers	🟨 Generic containers (SC::Vector, SC::SmallVector, SC::Array etc.)
File	🟩 Synchronous Disk File I/O
File System	🟩 File System operations { exists, copy, delete } for { files and directories }
File System Iterator	🟩 Enumerates files and directories inside a given path
File System Watcher	🟩 Notifications {add, remove, rename, modified} for files and directories
Foundation	🟩 Primitive types, asserts, limits, Function, Span, Result, Tagged Union
Hashing	🟩 Compute `MD5`, `SHA1` or `SHA256` hashes for a stream of bytes
Http	🟥 HTTP parser, client and server
Plugin	🟨 Minimal dependency based plugin system with hot-reload
Process	🟩 Create child processes and chain them (also usable with Async library)
Reflection	🟩 Describe C++ types at compile time for serialization
Serialization Binary	🟨 Serialize to and from a binary format using Reflection
Serialization Text	🟨 Serialize to / from text formats (JSON) using Reflection
Socket	🟨 Synchronous socket networking and DNS lookup
Strings	🟩 String formatting / conversion / manipulation (ASCII / UTF8 / UTF16)
Testing	🟨 Simple testing framework used by all of the other libraries
Threading	🟥 Atomic, thread, thread pool, mutex, condition variable
Time	🟨 Time handling (relative, absolute, high resolution)

Each library is color-coded to signal its status:

🟥 Draft (incomplete, work in progress, proof of concept, works on basic case)
🟨 MVP (minimum set of features have been implemented)
🟩 Usable (a reasonable set of features has been implemented to make library useful)
🟦 Complete (all planned features have been implemented)

C Bindings

Some Libraries have C bindings

Binding	Description
sc_hashing	Bindings for the Hashing Library

Building

Libraries can be used as is, adding a single file to your project and without needing any build system.
See Building (user) to just use the library

Shortly:

Add Bindings/cpp/SC.cpp to your build system of choice
Define SC_COMPILER_ENABLE_STD_CPP=1 if you plan to use the Standard C++ library
Include any public header (Libraries/[Library]/*.h)

Windows

Nothing else to link (in addition to default libs)

macOS / iOS

Link CoreFoundation.framework
Link CoreServices.framework

Linux

Link libdl (-ldl)
Link libpthread (-lpthread)

Examples

SCExample showcases integration of Sane C++ Libraries together with Dear ImGui and sokol libraries (see Examples page).

macOS

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2a38310c-6a28-4f86-a0f3-665dc15b126d

iOS

https://github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/assets/5406873/5c7d4036-6e0c-4262-ad57-9ef84c214717

Tests

Tests are built with the self-hosted SC::Build project generator, describing the builds in C++.
Check Building (contributor) to run the tests.

Getting in touch

Sane Coding Discord
Bluesky @pagghiu.bsky.social
Twitter @pagghiu_
Mastodon @pagghiu
Github Discussion

Alternatively I am also reading the following discords too:

Italian C++ Discord (@Pagghiu from any appropriate channel or just a DM, english and italian are both fine)
Handmade Network discord (@Pagghiu from any appropriate channel or just a DM)

Contributing

Please take some time to read the Principles and Coding Style.

After that you can read the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

License

Sane C++ Libraries are licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE.txt for more information.

Videos

Blog posts:

You can find some YouTube Videos and Blog posts describing some bits of the development process:

Pagghiu / SaneCppLibraries

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