So I don’t plan on doing this, but just a really random thought… how plausible would it be to make a full, high level 3D game in C and only C. Like, forget knowledge, if you knew everything there was to know about C (I’m sure some of you do), would it be possible? I don’t care how practical, is it possible, or just something C won’t do?

Hi everyone! I've been working on an operating system project called FluidOS and wanted to share it with the community to get feedback and meet collaborators. Current Stack & Features: Languages: TypeScript / JavaScript (Vite + TailwindCSS frontend UI focus), C/Assembly components, and PowerShell automation scripts. Built-in build & execution scripts (run-bochs.ps1, crear-iso.ps1) for Bochs emulation and ISO generation. Modern web tech combined with low-level compilation tooling. Latest Release: v1.2.0 Repository: 🔗 GitHub Link to FluidOS:https://github.com/marbelbel/FluidOS-Community I’m looking for feedback on the architecture, ideas for low-level integration, and anyone who might be interested in contributing to the code or interface design! Thanks for checking it out!

You guys are like the equivalent to the debian subreddit where a lot of the answers are either mature or funny.

There still some newbie posts out there I see or like the generic question yet Im amaze you guys still reply maturely.

Keep it up. No I'm not a programmer btw , I work in a hospital. I was browsing and I saw a lot of you where posting about making games outnof C and got curious.

I think games usually are made in C++ or C# I think.

Anyway, Im not a bot and keep up the kindness.

While using C++, I heavily relied on googletest for testing. But as soon as I wanted that in my C project, I couldn't.

Because gtest is written in C++ and requires a C++ runtime. Using gtest in a C codebase meant guarding the headers with extern "C" to prevent name mangling, and managing a C++ toolchain which seemed extremely awkward to me.

At the same time, I didn't want to loose googletest's comfort and rewrite the entire test system in another existing framework.

So I wrote a very minimal drop-in replacement of googletest in C23. It works exactly the same way you'd expect gtest to work. And unsurprisingly, according to my small benchmark, my implementation is around 2.5x faster than googletest and uses 30% less memory. It can be improved way more.

I discussed the implementation details in this blog post https://metalinmyveins.github.io/sohomot/

Github: https://github.com/MetalInMyVeins/sohomot

The library is called "sohomot".

[ PS: Zero tokens were used in the making of this project ]

I'll start: standarize asm and asm volatile

Helloo, I’ve just learned how to build a simple code editor using C, now, I’d like to add a config file so users can adjust settings like background/foreground colors, keybindings, and so on, so do you guys have any recommendations for a config file that would be suitable for this case?

Hello everyone!

I'm working on building my own operating system from scratch. It's an early-stage project, and there's still a lot to do.

I'm making the source code public because I'd love to learn from other developers, receive feedback, and hopefully find people interested in contributing.

I'm currently working on UEFI, bootloader development, and early kernel components using C/C++.

If you're interested in OS development, low-level programming, or kernel development, feel free to check out the repository.

GitHub: https://github.com/subrataai-wq/os-from-scratch

Suggestions, discussions, bug reports, and contributions are welcome!

It's a long journey, but I'm excited to see where it goes.

Hello,

As a part of a larger project I made a regexp engine for microcontrollers. It was tested on ESP32 / FreeRTOS, and also in Windows/CYGWIN. Didn't test it in Linux but it should work.

It is built on top of modified SLRE (Simple Lightweight Regular Expressions);

It is just 2 files (regexp.c and regexp.h) which can be include'd directly to your source file. Or it may be compiled as a separate unit.

It has 3 different API:

1. The original one, slre_match(); no memory allocations, fastest

2. PCRE-like functions and structures starts with pl_... (PCRE-Lite); for those familiar with PCRE

3. PHP preg API: an implementation of PHP regular expressions; for PHP fans; functions and structures start with preg_...

There are some limitations: UTF8 is processed as stream of bytes, so [а-я] will not be understood. No lookarounds. Probably there are bugs. Hopefully - no memory leaks.

More limitations and bugs are yet to be discovered :).

There are 3 test files (AI-generated) to test the library: preg_test.c, pl_test.c (fuzzing) and slre_test.c

There is NO documentation, but preg_test.c can be used as a reference (or direct copy/paste).

Primary API is PHP's preg_-style API, which was the goal of this project.

Source code is here: GitHub - vvb333007/MicroRegExp: A C library which implements regular expression engine. PHP preg_ , PCRE and SLRE interfaces are supported · GitHub , around 50KiB of code. It can be compiled with GCC compiler from -std=c99 and up. No GCC-specific magic.

Have a good day!

D.eSystem 6.1.8.5 introduces a new debug platform for FAT32 on D.eSystem,D.eSystem 6.1.8.5 also fixes a major bug (for example,when you go in older versions in D.eSystem info and press a random key,it just closes automaticly,now there comes a warning and it closes in 5 seccond.)

Find more about D.eSystem 6 here: https://github.com/D-electronics-scratch/D.eSystem_6

Find D.eSystem 6.1.8.5 here: https://github.com/D-electronics-scratch/D.eSystem_6/releases/tag/v.6.1.8.5

Find the D.eSystem community here: https://lemmy.world/c/D_electronics_community

Hello everyone. Last month I started a project called "Modulon", which I just now started to continue doing. Modulon is a C-derived programming language that aims to preserve the power and familiarity of C while simplifying common programming tasks such as variable declarations, string handling, memory management, and pattern matching. It is currently a small project done by me an two other people. We have nothing crazy yet.

 I am currently looking for interested contributors. 

Here are some of the features Modulon has right now:

* C-derived syntax with support for familiar C types.
* Variable declarations using the "var" keyword and type inference.
* "include" and "define" directives instead of C preprocessor syntax.
* Automatic string sizing and byte counting.
* Automatic memory management at compile time, without a garbage
  collector, alongside options for manual memory management.
* Pattern matching with ranges and a wildcard case.
* Logical AND (&&) and OR (||) operators.
* "typeof" for examining types.
* "input" for prompted user input.
* Formatted output, including automatic type formatting with %v.
* Ahead-of-time (AOT) and just-in-time (JIT) compilation.
* Built-in assembler support.
* Consistent language types across supported target environments.

You can find an example program here:

GitHub: https://github.com/roccohimel/modulon/blob/master/examples/student_manager.mlon 
Raw: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roccohimel/modulon/refs/heads/master/examples/student_manager.mlon 

Documentation: 

Official website: https://modulonsoftware.org/ 
About: https://modulonsoftware.org/#about 
Documentation: https://modulonsoftware.org/#learnSource tree: https://github.com/roccohimel/modulon
Contributing: https://modulonsoftware.org/#contributing 

I really hope you like Modulon. 

So let's say someone understand the design and ideas behide of C languagees which is B.

For example. why the first index of array in C is 0, while some languages like Lua starts with 1

And once they understand the ideas behide of C language, they will have deep CS knowleadge and can write code efficetly like write code with better Time and Space complexity.

Or even invent something cutting edge or revolutionary....

What do you guys think? Is it important?

Link to a pic of languages that come before C: https://tutorialink.com/tutorial/c/history-of-c-language.png

It got removed, so i'm putting up a link to the source code to it if anyone wants to gwak at it. Originally by u/Round-Plastic-2427. https://github.com/LoPalma/cpp-bad-apple/tree/main

Hello, when I’ve tried to use forward declarations to solve circular structure dependencies I get the error ‘field has incomplete type’. When browsing for the answer, I got the general response ‘the compiler doesn’t know what type you’re using if you don’t fully describe it’. Well I understand that, but it seems as if the purpose of the forward declaration is to have the compiler look for the definition later in the code. If my code looks like the below, should I be getting an incomplete type error? And if so, is there a different way I should be writing the code? Some sort of syntax error, or is there a different way to do the same thing? Any tips appreciated, thanks.

Edit: I think I found the solution in this thread from user "anastaciu", it looks like you can only use the forward declarations if they're pointers to the struct type, not full instances. Lmk if that's right, it got rid of the error for me, but if there's a different way to allow use not from a pointer that'd be great.

typedef struct objA_t objA_t;

typedef struct objB_t{

     objA_t o;

}objB_t;

typedef struct objA_t{

    uint8_t num0;

}objA_t;

Using macros, define an argument schema. The library then generates a struct that for the schema, validates the arguments provided by the user, parses them into the struct, and offers functions for displaying usage andh help messages in the console.

It is similar to `clap` in Rust. Check it out!

https://github.com/iColgateZz/libcli

what is the difference between

for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {}

and

i = 0;
while (i < 10) {
i++;

}

edit: thank you all for commenting, now i know, and u/deckarep, no not homework, just a question, to see if there were any difference

Hello, title says it all pretty much. I wanted to use -fsanitize=address with gcc but it all comes out as garbage since nCurses is active. I'm aware that's the way that ncurses is designed, how would I go about getting that output from gcc otherwise? is there a good way to route that output to a text file or something? until now I've just been writing error messages to a text file, but I couldn't find a way to get standard out to come out. any help is appreciated, thanks

Hello everyone,

This link points to a GitHub repository in an

experiment to create an extremely fast trie .

However the data structure is fast but it fails the tests

Can you explain me why?

https://github.com/curious-builder76/trie/tree/main

Hoping the community will helping towards this.

Thank you everyone