C_STD : A Leak-Free, Cross-Platform Standard Library for Modern C

c_std: A Leak-Free, Cross-Platform Standard Library for Modern C

Bringing the comfort of the C++ STL and Python's standard library to C17 — without leaving C

A technical white paper.

Executive summary

C is still the substrate of the computing world — kernels, databases, language runtimes, embedded firmware, and the inner loops of nearly everything else. Yet the moment you step away from the kernel and try to write ordinary application code in C, you feel the gap: no growable vector, no hash map, no JSON parser, no string type that doesn't invite a buffer overflow. You either pull in a grab-bag of mismatched third-party libraries, each with its own conventions and failure modes, or you re-implement the same dynamic array for the hundredth time.