imagine linking with a library and making your C code much easier to write...

fun.c

A C23 library that adds utilities, types and macros to make writing C more fun.

THIS IS A WIP! i just started this

Instead of adding heap-allocated arrays and strings everywhere, string is a typedef to char* and heap_string is a heap allocated string.

Code example

#include <base.h>

int entry(heap_array args) {
  if (args->length > 1) {
    eprintln("Too many arguments.");
    return 2;
  }
  
  let message = "Hello World!";
  println(message);
  
  return 0;
}

let is a macro to const auto and var is a macro to auto.

Even with the heap_array, the code runs very fast, benchmarked with hyperfine -N on an AMD Ryzen 5 5600U:

Lang	Note	Time
C	Using -O3 with puts	465.4 µs ± 60.6 µs
fun.c	Code above w/out arg checks or vars with -O3	560.3 µs ± 65.0 µs
Nim	Using echo, ORC, -d:release, C backend	491.0 µs ± 67.9 µs
Rust	With -C opt-level=3 using println!	673.5 µs ± 80.2 µs
Zig	It took 7ms. Zig sucks.	sudo pacman -Rns zig

for the zig lovers, proof:

dont ask about my working dir

the zig code is same as in https://ziglang.org/learn/samples/