Sane C++ Libraries - September 2025 ✅Get rid of many inter-library dependencies ✅Stop accidental dependencies additions in CI ✅Free most libraries from dynamic allocation ✅Transform Build from lib to app ✅Add GDB Pretty Printer ✅Many smaller fixes github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

I've been adding to Sane C++ Libraries a GDB debug visualizer (pretty printer in gdb terminology) taking care of strings and containers. In addition to the already existing ones for LLDB and MSVC Debugger (.natvis) I think we should be good now! #cpp #cplusplus

Sane C++ Libraries - August 2025 ✅ Available as Single File Libs ✅ Threading: Semaphore / Barrier / RWLock (→ Stable) ✅ AsyncStreams: IPC Pipe Streams (→ MVP) ✅ Process: Improve reliability ✅ More fixes (see blog post details) pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-08-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html #cpp

Sane C++ Libraries are now available as amalgamated single-file libs! They can be amalgamated offline or directly in-browser at: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... Each amalgamation lists dependencies on other amalgamated libs and the LOC of its header vs. implementation sections. Have fun! #cpp

Sane C++ Libraries - July 2025 Major cleanup month!🧹 ✅ Massive reduction in inter-library dependencies ✅ 7 libraries now allocation-free: - Async - File - FileSystem - FileSystemIterator - FileSystemWatcher - Process - Socket pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-07-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html #cpp

I have been removing the dependency of the Sane C++ FileSystemWatcher library from the Async one. There's a new mini-lib now called FileSystemWatcherAsync wiring them together explicitly when event loops are needed. It feels so much cleaner now! github.com/Pagghiu/Sane...

I have been removing many inter-dependencies between Sane C++ "Libraries" (mainly Strings/Memory/Containers) The following libraries do not allocate anymore! 🎉 ✅ Async ✅ File ✅ FileSystem ✅ FileSystemWatcher ✅ FileSystemIterator ✅ Process ✅ Socket See: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp

Sane C++ Libraries June 2025: ✅ Async FS Ops - {copy|remove|rename}{file|folder} - {open|close|read|write}file ✅ AsyncUDP {SendTo | ReceiveFrom} ✅ FileSystem {Iterator | Watcher} / Memory dependencies cleanup Blog pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

This week I have been adding a few more obvious Async FileSystem Ops: ✅ file/directory rename ✅ file/directory remove pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp #cplusplus

Async FileSystem Operation has been added to Sane C++ Libraries for: ✅file open/close ✅file read/write ✅file copy All ops are executed on user supplied thread-pool for IOCP(win)/kqueue(mac)/epoll(linux), with special code path for io_uring(linux)! pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp #cplusplus

I have been adding to Sane C++ Libraries some async primitives needed to send and receive bytes to and from UDP sockets (sendTo and receiveFrom). As always implemented for IOCP, kqueue / epoll and io_uring! Documentation: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... Commit: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp

Sane C++ Libraries May 2025: ✅ AsyncSequence - Serial execution of async requests ✅ SC::Async - Smaller memory footprint - Improved cancellation handling deepwiki.com/Pagghiu/Sane... Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... Have a nice weekend! #cpp #cplusplus

Sane C++ Libraries April 2025 ✅ Process fork ✅ Struct dumping ✅ Async vectorized writes ✅ Tools update ✅ Repo restructuring Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-04-30-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html Github: github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/releases/tag/release%2F2025%2F04 Have a nice week! #cpp

I've added a ProcessFork class to Sane C++ Libraries after discovering that "fork" on Windows can be approximated with RtlCloneUserProcess. There are a ton of limitations but it's useful to serialize a data structure without blocking for IO or copying it for async IO. Nice! #cpp

An example of "struct dumping" in Sane C++ Libraries. Anything SC::Segment based (Vector / String / VectorMap etc.) can be dumped and restored by just casting it (well, start_lifetime_as 🤭). I guess it's not rocket science but recent additions make creating this simple and easy. #cpp #cplusplus

Sane C++ Libraries improvements for March 2025: ✅ Custom Allocators (Segment / Containers) ✅ Relative Pointers Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-03-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html Github: github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/releases/tag/release%2F2025%2F03 Have a nice week! #cpp #cplusplus

While debugging some of the recent container issues for Sane C++ Libraries I have been starting to track the number of allocation and deallocations calls. The test suite by itself is doing 20K allocations and ~50K re-allocations 🫠. Is it MAYBE time to add support for custom allocators? 😅

I've been pushing one more refactoring for Sane C++ Libraries Containers (never enough!) to take advantage of all of my recently acquired know-how on fighting UB connected to violating compiler aliasing analysis...or at least isolate it! Hopefully this is now better than before 🧹 #cpp #cplusplus

It looks like self-relative pointers in C++ always cause UB, unless done through member ptrs. Member ptrs don't seem to be usable as generalized self-relative ptrs, to locate the start of a dynamic array memory inside an arena or something similar... Time to rollback the relative pointers change?🙄

Published a WIP 'dynamic_fonts' branch to receive feedback. This should evolve and stabilize toward a 1.92 release (in 1-2 months). github.com/ocornut/imgu... (Published code in this branch includes font scaling but not style/general scaling yet. Still working on that)

I've just pushed a significant update for Vector-like containers in Sane C++ Libraries making the size/capacity header always inline and using relative pointers. Relative pointers can be useful to do bulk memcpy-serialization of structures based on such containers. github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp

Sane C++ Libraries improvements for February 2025: ✅ Containers re-write ✅ SC::Build per-file settings Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-02-28-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html Github: github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/releases/tag/release%2F2025%2F02 Have a nice weekend! #cpp #cplusplus

For absolutely no reason I've decided to rewrite Vector / SmallVector / Array / SmallArray classes for Sane C++ Libraries. I've added a Buffer class (+SmallBuffer) to Foundation to replace all Vector<char/uint8_t> (+SmallVector) usages. It's based on a very compact Segment<> class (<500LOC). #cpp

I have just pushed to Sane C++ Libraries removal of SC::TaggedUnion usages from SC::Build. I am now wondering if I should remove it from Foundation lib to keep it super lean. Or should I split it into a "Foundation Extra" lib? Maybe yes as it contains more C++ meta-programming than I usually like...

Hey, I am sharing a brief update of Sane C++ Libraries additions for the month of January 2025. Blog Post: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github release: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... Have a nice weekend! #cpp #cplusplus

I have found some use-cases requiring a smaller Function in Sane C++ Libraries. My goal is to remove one function pointer. Options: 1. static VTable approach (adds one indirection and a mutex on first bind) (as posted by @jeremy.laumon.name) 2. Requiring func return type to be default constructible

Reminder that we are organizing the second edition of the /dev/games conference! If you’d like to speak about cool stuff that you’ve done gimme a shout 😊

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! This is the last trip into "Async Streams"-land, implementing compression transforms execution with a thread pool. I will be pausing Async Streams for a while to focus again on SC::Async for the very next period! Enjoy! #cpp #cplusplus youtu.be/vCh6vEfiISI

This is a brief update of Sane C++ Libraries additions for the month of December 2024. Blog Post: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github release: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane...

I have just made the repo of my C++ STL replacement lib public on github. It's called Bedrock. It's got the usual things, Vector, String, Atomic etc. but also a very good HashMap and few interesting allocators (details on blog: danglingpointers.com/post/bedrock...) github.com/jlaumon/Bedr...

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! The trip into async transform streams land is still going on. Here I am transforming the sync zlib stream into an async state machine (including 20 minutes of me staring at the screen while trying to figure out a silly bug) Enjoy the video! #cpp youtu.be/KKwohFmAUCk

After my 1 year post on Sane C++ Libraries I got visited by 3 ghosts. The first one told me to make SC::Async competitive with other Async IO libraries. The second one told me to build some more cool application examples. The third one crashed leaving a “Rewrite it in Rust” note on the floor. 👻🎄

Sane C++ Libraries is 1 year old! 🎉🎂 ✅ Fast compile time ✅ Bloat free ✅ Simple readable code ✅ Easy to integrate ⛔️ No C++ Standard Library ⛔️ No third party build dependencies github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries Blog pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2024-12-23-SaneCpp1Year.html 🙏repost if you like it!❤️

Finished up the video properly introducing / giving an overview of Clay! #cprogramming youtu.be/DYWTw19_8r4

One year ago I've created a GitHub blog (pagghiu.github.io) using raw HTML / CSS. I did it because I wanted to create a static site generator using Sane C++ Libraries that never materialized... After deeply regretting it 😑 I am now converting it to use a proper one (getpelican.com looks great!)

We are organising the next edition of the /Dev/Games conference in beautiful Rome! Come join us and hit me up if you would like to be part of the presenters!

ImPlot3D: A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui github.com/brenocq/impl...

C/C++ compression tip: Avoid deploying zlib binary with your executable, it's already included in the OS. macOS ▶️ libz.dylib Linux ▶️ libz.so.1 (on normal distros) Windows ▶️ clrcompression.dll (.NET CLR) exports: - deflate - deflateEnd - inflate - inflateEnd - deflateInit2_ - inflateInit2_ Enjoy!😏

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! Time has come to create a Transform Stream using zlib! I am compressing and decompressing data between file and socket. It's still synchronous for now, but we got to start from somewhere before becoming fully asynchronous! Enjoy the video! #cpp youtu.be/Ul7DdQGrETo

Hey, I just figured out that I've never been posting on BlueSky how nice the API from SC::Process from Sane C++ Libraries has become with the improvements added over the course of this year! Check it out if you need to spawn some processes with I/O redirection!!! 🤭 pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra...

This is a brief update of Sane C++ Libraries additions for the last months (Async Streams mainly). Blog Post: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github release: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane...

I'm wrapping my head around making a proper Async Transform stream a-la node.js in Sane C++ Libraries while still keeping everything "allocation-free" as it's...not easy! Oh and I finally figured out where I can find a zlib dll I can assume to exist pre-installed by default on Windows 🙃

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! Today I'm implementing an Async Socket Streams abstraction (akin to node.js streams). So far it can asynchronously read test data from a file, pipe it to a socket, read it from the other socket side and pipe it to a file. Enjoy the video! youtu.be/0x6TLV_ig-A #cpp

On Thurdsay I will push out one more Sane C++ Libraries Async Streams video + code and I am thinking about what to do next. I need a good excuse to implement also a Transform stream...that is a perfect fit for things like Compression / Cryptography.

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! Today I'm adding AsyncPipeline to the node.js-like C++ streams. It routes readable async streams to multiple writable. I'm also drafting async file streams to test it. Next: Async sockets streams! 😌 Enjoy the video! youtu.be/8rYQ2ApxnwA #cpp #nodejs #cplusplus

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! Today a writable stream has been added to Sane C++ Async Streams, that is a node.js-like streams abstraction. Some more bricks will be needed for this to become useful but we'll slowly get there 😌. Enjoy the video! youtu.be/0OXLxIDvmOU #cpp #cplusplus #nodejs

🎉 New Sane C++ Libraries Video! I'm trying to extend SC::Async with a Node.js-like streams abstraction, starting from an async readable stream. Writable streams and pipelines will be next! Enjoy the video! youtu.be/MFPjoOUTlBo #cpp #programming