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Bravely Arranged Standard Library
bastd is my own custom standard library for C, made to aid in the development
of games, 3D software, 2D development tools and more.
It strays heavily from what is supported in the lackluster C standard library and aims to be a sufficient and even superior replacement.
bastd's design goals include:
- Simplifying the build system
- Providing a full framework for Graphical and Console Applications
- Giving clear errors and debugging tools to the Programmer
- Making C a more "tolerable" language
bastd's features include:
- No header files. They cause more harm than good in my opinion, and I prefer a
single translation unit in my builds. You just include
bastd.cat the top of your main C file and you start writing code. - Memory Allocators. The premier one is the
Arena Allocator,
which acts as our generic allocator in place of
malloc, providing a unfirom interface that simplifies memory management and groups allocations together into clearly defined lifetimes - A Length-Based String Type + String Builder. This replaces whatever the hell
string.hwas meant to be, by introducing a length to strings, which allows for simple slicing of the string and modification. - Generic data-structures. The premier one is the
Dynamic Array, which
brings the power of C++'s
std::vectorto C - A simple I/O system that supports both standard input/output and file input/output. It's built on a basic buffer type that you can flush to output data.
- A logging system built ontop of this I/O system. You can either log out to a file or to stdout.
- A simple GUI initialization system that gets you an Direct3D 11 or OpenGL window with immediate-mode input.
- A basic 2D renderer built ontop of this graphics initializater, that can draw shapes and textures to the screen. The shaders used can be customized for added effect. It features a simple camera system to seperate which parts of the screen use which shaders and viewports.
- An audio library. Windows implementation uses WASAPI, Linux uses ALSA.
- implemented
- planned
The only currently supported platform is Windows, though once the APIs are finished, a Linux and FreeBSD port are planned.
Why C?
Cuz I like C. It's the closest "high-level" language to assembly, so I have maximum control. It is really simple, which in some ways is to its detriment. Almost all OS libraries, Graphics libraries, Audio libraries, etc. are written in C.
C is great. Don't let anyone tell you it's not.
LICENSE
bastd is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. See LICENSE.md.