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24 alternatives to A nice C string API

A convenient C string API, friendly alongside classic C strings.

A Nice C String API is a development tool that provides a convenient string API for the C programming language designed to work alongside traditional C strings. It offers a friendly alternative approach to string… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A nice C string API launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I built a web framework in C▲420
a lightweight web framework in c. Contribute to ashtonjamesd/lavandula development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bic – a C interpreter and API explorer▲181
A C interpreter and API explorer. Contribute to hexagonal-sun/bic development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The C3 programming language (C alternative language)▲175
Get it from here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c In 2019, while contributing to the C2 language, I started up "C3" as a pet project while waiting for pull requests to be approved... Now it's 6 years later and C3 well on its way to 1.0, having released 0.7.0 last week. Unlike other C alternatives, C3 tries to evolve C – but without concern to backwards compatibility to the latter. What it adds to C is among other things: - Module system - Semantic macros and compile time introspection - Lightweight generic modules - Zero overhead errors - Build-in slices and SIMD types -…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels▲150
Pure C implementation of Go channels. Contribute to tylertreat/chan development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Essentials-C – A minimal C library for string and array manipulation▲10
Hey everyone! I just launched Essentials-C, a minimal C library with handy functions for string and array manipulation – built from scratch with simplicity and learning in mind. Highlights: - `length`, `reverse`, `substring`, `trim`, `replaceChar`, etc. - `bubbleSort`, `includes`, `startsWith`, `endsWith`, and more - Pure C, no external dependencies - Clean, readable code – great for beginners and power users I’m building it to be the “Essentials” of every C project — feel free to contribute or suggest features! GitHub: https://github.com/oileo/Essentials-C Feedback is…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for Python▲134
Rapid fuzzy string matching in Python using various string metrics - rapidfuzz/RapidFuzz
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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High Performance Simple String Processing in C++▲16
C++ String Toolkit Library (StrTk)
2018 · partow.net · its alternatives →
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Strings▲175
In-app copy editing for UX writers and product teams
2020 · its alternatives →
9KA
Krep a High-Performance String Search Utility Written in C▲173
2025 · davidesantangelo.github.io · its alternatives →
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SuperString – A fast and memory-optimized string library for C++▲52
A fast and memory-optimized string library for C++ - btwael/SuperString
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn C and its lower levels interactively, in the browser▲356
I made a simple virtual machine that runs C in the browser.This project is made as an experiment to see if C can be learned easier if the lower level is covered in paralel. Sandbox: https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting Tutorial part 1: https://vasyop.github.io/miniC-hosting/?0 More info: https://github.com/vasyop/miniC-hosting/blob/master/README.md Please support this project: https://github.com/vasyop/miniC-hosting/blob/master/support.md
2019 · its alternatives →
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C++11 immutable string▲23
I'm looking for feedback on this approach to an immutable string (istring). The idea is to provide a super fast immutable string that can be efficiently passed to lambdas as well as be 100% thread safe. Another bonus is faster hashing. If a string literal is given to istring, then the hash is computed at compile time! Other strings will have their hashes cached for later use. The istring is designed more or less after the python string in this regard. It should also consume less memory than std::string and perform faster in all other areas.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A portable hash map in C▲176
A small, portable, linear probing hash map. Contribute to e-dant/salmagundi development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Readble Regex▲130
Regex REST API for easier codebase maintenance of regex
2025 · readable-regex-8d81b79167bf.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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C3 – A C alternative that looks like C▲120
Compiler for the C3 language. Contribute to c3lang/c3c development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Fast, Malloc-Free C++14 Json Parser and Encoder▲98
Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Very low footprint JSON parser in portable ANSI C▲111
Very low footprint DOM-style JSON parser written in portable ANSI C - json-parser/json-parser
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go▲186
Go library that provides fuzzy string matching optimized for filenames and code symbols in the style of Sublime Text, VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA et al. - sahilm/fuzzy
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A work-in-progress C compiler from scratch▲159
Programming language that compiles into a x86 ELF executable. - riicchhaarrd/ocean
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT▲170
Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url (encode, decode) - Hashing: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512 - Data Generation: uuid (v1, v3, v4, v5), token, lorem, random - Text Processing: case (lower, upper, camel, title, constant, header, sentence, snake), pretty-print, diff - Development Tools: calc, json…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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C3 – A C alternative that looks like C▲182
Compiler link: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c Docs: http://www.c3-lang.org This is my follow-up "Show HN" from roughly a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570). Since then the language design has evolved and the compiler has gotten much more solid. Assorted extra info: - The C3 name is a homage to the C2 language project (http://c2lang.org) which it was originally inspired by. - Although C3 mostly conforms to C syntax, the most obvious change is requiring `fn` in front of the functions. This is to simplify searching for…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Stricks – managed C strings library▲15
Managed C strings library. Contribute to alcover/stricks development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter▲138
Hi all! I'm going into my freshman year, and figured that the best way to prepare for the intro to programming Racket course would be to implement my own garbage-collected, dynamically typed, functional programming language in C ;) Anyways... here's the repo: https://github.com/liam-ilan/crumb I started learning C over the summer, so I still have a whole lot to learn... Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! :D
2023 · its alternatives →
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Fast C-based HTML 5 parsing for Python▲169
Fast C based HTML 5 parsing for python. Contribute to kovidgoyal/html5-parser development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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