Show HN: Lib0xc, the C standard library you wish you had

Category: library

Tags: c-library, systems-programming, memory-safety

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Lib0xc is a Microsoft-led C library providing safer alternatives to standard library functions, with a strong emphasis on bounds checking, compile-time safety, and clang bounds-safety extensions. It's interesting because it codifies industry patterns into a well-structured, documented, and tested set of APIs that aim to make C programming significantly safer without changing the language itself.

Target audience: systems programmers, backend devs, embedded devs

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc · C · NOASSERTION · 85 stars

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