Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to C++ Channel
Thread-safe container for sharing elements between threads.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. C++ Channel launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2016 · samanbarghi.com · its alternatives →
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A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects. - GitHub - rochus-keller/CspChan: A pure C (-std=c89) implementation of Go channels, including blocking and non-blocking selects.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, easy to use stream computation library for C++.
2016 · raftlib.io · its alternatives →
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Inter-process C++ communication library to enable allocation managed between processes/threads and send/receive of allocated regions between producers/consumer processes or threads using this IPC buffer. (and yes it implements an M:N ring buffer too) - Usage · RaftLib/ipc Wiki
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A concurrent thread-safe hash map implemented in C++ - kshk123/hashMap
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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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Non-preemptive Thread Hierarchy Manager. Contribute to gueststar/nthm development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · blog.paralleluniverse.co · its alternatives →
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I love C and C++, but setting up projects can sometimes be a pain. Every time I wanted to start something new I'd spend the first hour writing CMakeLists.txt, figuring out find_package, copying boilerplate from my last project, and googling why my library isn't linking. By the time the project was actually set up I'd lost all momentum. So, I built Craft - a lightweight build and workflow tool for C and C++. Instead of writing CMake, your project configuration goes in a simple craft.toml: [project] name = "my_app" version = "0.1.0" language = "c" c_standard = 99 [build] type = "executable"…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Concurrency library for C (coroutines). Contribute to tidwall/neco development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Over the last few years, I've needed an easy way to quickly serialise and deserialise various network protocols safely and efficiently. Most of the libraries that existed at the time were either quite heavy, had less than stellar performance, or were an abstraction level above what I was looking for. I decided to put together my own class to do the job, starting with an easy, low-overhead way to move bytes in and out of arbitrary buffers. Along the way, it picked up useful bits and pieces, such as buffer structures and allocators that made the byte shuffling faster, often being able to do it…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Multithreaded, non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust - nathansizemore/hydrogen
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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If you work in C++, and you would like 2+ programs to share data structures (and/or native I/O handles a.k.a. FDs) among each other, there is a good chance Flow-IPC - will make it considerably less annoying to code than typical approaches; and - may massively reduce the latency involved. Those sharing Cap'n Proto-encoded data may have particular interest. Cap'n Proto (https://capnproto.org) is fantastic at its core task - in-place serialization with zero-copy - and we wanted to make the IPC (inter-process communication) involving capnp-serialized messages be zero-copy,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · team.s4y.us · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Korean high school senior here, about to start CS in college. I built a browser engine from scratch in C++ to understand how browsers work. First time using C++, 8 weeks of development, lots of debugging—but it works! Features: - HTML parsing with error correction - CSS cascade and inheritance - Block/inline layout engine - Async image loading + caching - Link navigation + history Hardest parts: - String parsing(html, css) - Rendering - Image Caching & Layout Reflowing What I learned (beyond code): - Systematic debugging is crucial - Ship with known bugs rather than chase…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, this is Will and David from Fortress (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426998). We use a lot of async Rust internally, and created this library out of a need for an async-aware concurrent hashmap since there weren’t many available in the Rust ecosystem. Whirlwind is a sharded HashMap with a fully asynchronous API. Just as dashmap is a replacement for std::sync::RwLock, whirlwind aims to be a replacement for tokio::sync::RwLock. It has a similar design and performance characteristics to dashmap, but seems to perform better in read-heavy workloads with tokio's…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A C++ HTML template engine that uses compile time HTML parsing - rep-movsd/see-phit
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've built [CXXStateTree](https://github.com/ZigRazor/CXXStateTree), a modern C++ header-only library to create hierarchical state machines with clean, intuitive APIs. It supports: - Deeply nested states - Entry/exit handlers - State transitions with guards and actions - Asynchronous transitions with `co_await` (C++20 coroutines) - Optional runtime type identification for flexibility It's ideal for complex control logic, embedded systems, games, robotics, and anywhere you'd use a finite state machine. I’d love feedback, use cases, or contributions from the…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News. I’m Martin, a graduate student from Prague, and I’ve been working on Coros, a C++ library for task-based parallelism. After spending some time with OpenMP and oneTBB, I wanted to try building a library using modern features from the C++ standard library. I’ve used coroutines for task encapsulation and C++23 expected for exception handling, while trying to maintain good performance. Additionally, I’ve implemented monadic-like behavior to allow easy chaining of tasks, similar to the monadic operations in std::expected. You can check out the project here:…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets - paullouisageneau/libdatachannel
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:copyright: Concurrent Programming Library (Coroutine) for C11 - sharow/libconcurrent
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Parse command line arguments by defining a struct. Contribute to p-ranav/structopt development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast and memory-optimized string library for C++ - btwael/SuperString
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Meta programming utilities for C++14. Merged in matt-42/lithium - matt-42/iod
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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