Top 8 C Metaprogramming Projects

datatype99

29 794 3.5 C

Algebraic data types for C99
metalang99

42 765 3.7 C

Full-blown preprocessor metaprogramming

Project mention: How to convert an enum to string in C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-30

There are also other approaches. Macro variants making use of `__VA_ARGS__` would be probably the best trade-off. If you want a slightly more ergonomic syntax, something like Metalang99 [1] will help (and the author even wrote a post about this exact subject [2]). Codegen is another option which may work better than other options depending on the situation and exact implementation strategy. And there is always the Reflection TS [3], which may or may not be incorporated to C++26...
[1] https://github.com/Hirrolot/metalang99
[2] https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/pretty-printable-enumeratio...
[3] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/reflect

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metadesk

2 316 0.0 C
interface99

15 262 1.9 C

Full-featured interfaces for C99
honey-potion

6 234 6.4 C

Writing eBPF programs with Elixir!

Project mention: Honey Potion: an eBPF backend for Elixir | /r/elixir | 2023-05-18

Hi all! We are working on an eBPF backend for Elixir. It's called Honey Potion. The project is under development, but it is possible to write some useful programs at this point. For instance, in this video, one of the guys involved explains how to write a program to count system calls.

adorad

5 60 1.8 C

Fast, Expressive, & High-Performance Programming Language for those who dare
bfcpp

9 37 0.0 C

Optimizing Brainfuck interpreter in the C preprocessor
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ableC

1 35 6.9 C

Attribute grammar Based Language Extensions for C

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).