cake VS Cello

Compare cake vs Cello and see what are their differences.

cake

Cake a C23 front end and transpiler written in C (by thradams)

Cello

Higher level programming in C (by orangeduck)
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cake Cello
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9.8 0.0
6 days ago 8 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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cake

Posts with mentions or reviews of cake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.

Cello

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cello. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Libcello – higher level C programming
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
  • The NSA list of memory-safe programming languages has been updated
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
  • Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C [pdf]
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2023
    Yes, that's C. C macros can take you quite far. Unfortunately because it's just a bunch of macros, it's quite brittle. Like high level abstractions created with macros in assembly language. You have to do all the checking and reasoning about it since the compiler cannot.

    [1] https://libcello.org/

  • Better C Generics: The Extendible _Generic
    9 projects | /r/C_Programming | 28 Jan 2023
    It took me a long time to understand, coming from higher level programming, that a lot of exactly that "higher level" is just systematic fat pointer conventions. And because pointers-with-metadata is not a first-class language construct, we invent all these languages that codify a particular fat pointer convention. Cello is an example of what kinds of abstractions can be built on top of a tiny little bit of (non-native) fat pointer convention.
  • OOP in C
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2023
    There is a lightweight object oriented extension to C called Objective-C [1] that unfortunately never gained much traction outside the NeXT/Apple ecosystem. There is also Cello [2].

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

    [2] https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello

  • Ask HN: Modern C Libraries
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2022
    Regular expressions library to validate information before dumping to rocksdb.

    https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Regular-E...

    Non-critical implimentation fun, use cello [1] for 'gawk' functionality in C with C++ objects/classes.

    [1] https://libcello.org/

  • What does the ??!??! operator do in C?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2022
  • Is it possible to make C as safe as Rust?
    3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 29 Sep 2022
    You can achieve a fairly decent runtime safety for some types of project. Check out libcello and my own monster (libstent, lame presentation).
  • Ask HN: I like studying the concept of abstractions
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2022
    towards lisp related data structures / algorithms (aka recursive tree data structures & algorithms).

    So, no distinction between metadata vs. structual storage unless noted.

    Anything beyond that tends towards masters & upper level undergraduate level material. aka review the implimentation of a programming language for algorithm & data structure usage per language features.

    aka Autonoma / regular expressions backround: Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec; ; https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers; On Lisp by Paul Graham; Let over Lambda by Doug Hoyte; C 'macro's pushed to maximum effect : https://libcello.org/

        Left out Comparison of languages; Transform from lang a to lang b; and language implimentation as discussions tend to assume masters / upper level undergraduate knowledge
  • Cake: C23 Front End and Transpiler C23 – C99
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2022
    with skills like this, mind to push cello forward? https://github.com/orangeduck/Cello really like it but not skillful enough to do it myself.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cake and Cello you can also consider the following projects:

lang - This is the source code repository for the Lang Programming Language, containing a compiler, documentation and soon-to-be standard library.

vos - Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language

tombl - Easily query TOML files from bash

cfront-3 - self education and historical research of the C++ compiler cfront v3

run-clang-format - A wrapper script around clang-format, suitable for linting multiple files and to use for continuous integration

glibc - GNU Libc

pg_netstat - PostgreSQL extension to monitor database network traffic

v-mode - 🌻 An Emacs major mode for the V programming language.

pycparser - :snake: Complete C99 parser in pure Python

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

cedro - C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.