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• Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2026

  > I am a regular person who wrote this code

  The repo has an AGENTS.md [1] so the question becomes how much was hand written vs AI generated? If you wrote 100% of the code, then why include instructions for AI agents?

  [1] https://github.com/tspader/sp/blob/e64697aa649907ce3357a7dd0...

• Show HN: TC, A minimalistic systems language with 10 keywords (plus types)
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2026

  Can you write more about the technical side? How does the transpilation work? Is it mostly naive / 1:1 or do you do any transforms on an AST? What will the language be good for when it's reasonably complete? What are you intentionally skipping?

  Or, to put it another way, the description: "Tight-C is a minimal systems programming language that transpiles to C. 10 keywords, no garbage collector, no inference, no OOP — just explicit, predictable code with C-level power."

  Tells me a lot about what it's not but not much about what it is.

  Just to be clear, this isn't really criticism. I've had similar ideas, so I think the proposition is basically good. I just think that anyone who would use such a language would want to know its technical core. Also, another piece of unsolicited advice, you should think of a nontrivial use that no existing language can do and do it. For example, if you had a small example with a game loop that links to libtc, watches for changes to source code, and recompiles + fills in a table of function pointers for in-process hot reloading, that would be sweet and would make me seriously consider the language.

  Finally, you may be interested in my C standard library replacement (https://github.com/tspader/sp). Your language would benefit from being extremely portable, using sp.h as your base gives you that by default.

• Show HN: I built a web framework in C
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2025

  C is really, really ripe for tooling and modern libraries. There are a lot of great ones already that don’t resemble what I’ll call university C in the slightest (i.e. the C most of us remember writing; awful, bug filled, segfaulting)

  I’ve been building out my C standard library replacement in earnest for a little while. If you like this framework, check it out.

  https://github.com/tspader/sp

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