Strings in C... tiring and unsafe. So I just made this lib. Am I doing it right, Reddit ?

• libds

  6 16 0.0 C

  A collection of data structures for C

So, I wrote a new library recently that works produces and consumes strings in the form that C already uses them in (making them more easily usable everywhere) - https://github.com/lelanthran/libds/blob/v1.0.5/src/ds_str.h

• buf

  4 66 0.0 C

  Discontinued C string buffer library (by alcover)

The commit history is...very clean https://github.com/alcover/buf/commits/master

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• SPString

  3 7 0.0 C

  A C string library that's designed with embedded development in mind.

I've developped my own string library 15 years ago and used it in payment terminals with rather limited memory. if you are so concerned with string size, 2 bytes is enough for 65535 characters, which is enough for nearly everything. You are never going to allocate 8 bytes/string, that's stupid. If you need to work on more than that (a text editor for instance) you are not going to use C strings anyway, but some more complicated data structure. If you think adding 2 bytes per string is a problem, you probably are optimizing the wrong way. Pascal strings have been used since the 1970s and AFAIK have never been a problem memory-wise. And that's normal since they took exactly the same size as C strings.

• SDS

  48 4,773 0.0 C

  Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

How does this compare to https://github.com/antirez/sds ?

• stb

  164 25,008 6.7 C

  stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++

Are you aware of the STB Stretchy Buffer? https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stretchy_buffer.h

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