libCat

🐈‍⬛ A runtime for C++26 w/out libC or POSIX. Smaller binaries, only arena allocators, SIMD, stronger type safety than STL, and value-based errors! (by Cons-Cat)

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  • I hate almost all software
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
    That's awesome! I'm working on something that sounds similar. https://github.com/cons-cat/libcat

    I'd love to see your work if you're willing to share it here!

  • Why Janet?
    1 project | /r/programming | 13 Apr 2023
    This runtime size bothers me a lot. So much that I've been working on a new runtime for C++ that breaks POSIX compatibility to keep binaries as small as they can be. The hello world with LTO is 330ish bytes right now, and I think that can get smaller. https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat
  • Manticore 6.0.0 – a faster alternative to Elasticsearch in C++
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2023
  • std::initializer_list in C++ 1/2 - Internals and Use Cases
    1 project | /r/cpp | 31 Jan 2023
    I'm working on a library that replaces both C++ and C/POSIX standard libraries (https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat), but even then I need to define a few std:: namespace symbols for some features. In the case of std::initializer_list, my answer is just don't use that feature, because you don't really need it.
  • Chromium accepting Rust in a clear move to copy what Mozilla have done, replace C++ source code
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 12 Jan 2023
    It's worse in the standard library than it has to be. When I refactored my traits to minimize template instantiations and lean on concepts as much as possible, I measured over 30% improvement to clean build compile times. It's not possible for the standard to do this, because it would subtly change the API. For instance, you can't instantiate or take the address of a concept, but you can for a type-trait class. No reason you'd want to do that, but you can, so they can't "break" the standard library by optimizing this.
  • C++'s smaller cleaner language
    11 projects | /r/cpp | 31 Dec 2022
    This doesn't have to be true. Over the past year I've made progress towards demonstrating how even non-freestanding C++ can be written without any C or C++ standard library headers or DLLs (with large benefits). There are a few names which the compilers require to be in the std:: namespace, though, but they're very special features like source_location and construct_at with semantics that can't be expressed otherwise.
  • C++ is essentially unusable without incurring undefined behavior because of it's failure to handle type punning.
    1 project | /r/cpp | 18 Dec 2022
    This bit cast has no overhead in debug mode, and is a little bit more generally useful than std::bit_cast(), but cannot be constant evaluated. https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/libraries/utility/implementations/bit_cast.tpp
  • Is bloat in std::unexpected expected?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 15 Dec 2022
    It isn't that hard to put a predicate into a type. We have lambdas in an unevaluated context, CTAD, and templated type aliases. https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/libraries/scaredy/cat/scaredy https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/global_includes.hpp#L70 https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/main/src/libraries/linux/cat/linux#L289 You do it like this.
  • CamelCase for C++?
    1 project | /r/cpp | 10 Dec 2022
    But suppose that you have code with no standard library calls at all. Would it still make sense to choose this naming convention? This is actually possible, with a few special exceptions. GCC requires that an implementation of std::source_location has very particular class member names, GCC assigns special semantics to a few function names including std::construct_at and std::move (people seem to know it's inlined, but did you know std::move is required for move-related warnings?), and most intrusively of all, a promise_type must be snake_case. Other names can be worked around by using them into a different namespace with a different letter-case, but promise_type seems unavoidable.
  • Competitive programmer using c++, but absolutely ignorant of other things the language can do here. What else can c++ do?
    1 project | /r/cpp | 1 Dec 2022
    I use C++ for a low-level Linux runtime. Other people are using it for operating systems like SerenityOS and Zircon/Fuschia. People also use C++ for making more compilers like GCC and LLVM.
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