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24 alternatives to To_Shout – A Bare-Metal Output Library with Zero Dependencies
I've built To_Shout, a lightweight output library for bare-metal environments that requires no standard library, no OS dependencies, and no headers. It's designed for kernel development, embedded systems, and anyone working close to the metal. Key features: · Type-aware output using C11 _Generic · Supports integers, floats, strings, hex, and binary formats · VGA text mode implementation included · Color output support · Less than 300 lines of code · LGPL 3.0 licensed GitHub: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/to_shout
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2015 · libsound.io · its alternatives →
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Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project I've been building in my spare time over the past few months. It's a library that provides methods for working with musical harmony ‒ intervals, notes, chords. For example, it can parse almost any chord symbol (Fmaj7, CminMaj9, etc) and turn it into notes, or it can identify a chord from a given set of notes. I started this project with the idea of using formal grammar to parse chord symbols. I wanted to use it instead of a hand-written parser, which is the common approach among similar libraries. Lua caught my attention because of Lpeg, a Parsing Expression Grammar library…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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KRFT 1.5.0▲110A modular instrument for music production
2017 · studioamplify.com · its alternatives →
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This weekend I created stacklib.h - a single-header library that brings Forth-style stack operations to C. It implements a basic interpreter with: - Stack operations (push/pop/dup/swap/over/drop) - Arithmetic (+, -, *, /) - Output (., emit, cr) - Stack inspection (.s, depth) Example usage: Stack s; stack_init(&s); dict_init(); exec(&s, "10 20 + ."); // Prints "30" exec(&s, "1 2 3 4 .s"); // Shows stack contents The library is self-contained, requires no dependencies, and handles basic error checking. It was inspired by wanting to understand…
2025 · its alternatives →
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I've been working on a C-based open source sound engine as part of a book project and wanted an approachable way for people to try it out without having to build anything. Through the magic of emscripten (which I'm totally amazed by) and miniaudio (which has given me new life late in my development career), and a smidge of vibe-coded HTML/JS (web-dev is not my jam), this page will let you try out the tooling. I gave a lightning talk on the ASCII notation at ElixirConf EU last month here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnJ0osgiqWM There's a work-in-progress tutorial for…
May 2026 · octetta.github.io · its alternatives →
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just a wack systems dude tbh
2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →
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Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles! Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies. https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv As usual, feedback please!
2022 · its alternatives →
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Hi All, I felt like I was re-inventing the wheel by bolting similar channel architectures onto different Go structs repeatedly so I decided to extract some common types into into one library so that they would be easier to re-use: - oneshot - spsc - spmc - mpsc - mpmc - broadcast - watch The types are inspired by Rust channels so if you're coming from Rust they should feel familiar. So far I'm really enjoying using them but it'd be great to get some external feedback if you have time! https://github.com/amorey/gochan Andres
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An open-source music analyzing library that is used to compute distance between songs
2022 · lelele.io · its alternatives →
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Hi all! I created a text-to-speech service called bullfrog. I am aiming to create a simple, inexpensive TTS service that can be called from any application. We currently have a ruby gem, and plan to add a PHP library and many others as well. Would love your feedback and criticism! https://bullfrog.io
2013 · its alternatives →
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Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust - chaosprint/glicol
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · blog.brakmic.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I made a completely open sourced alternative to Weights and Biases with (insert cringe) blazingly fast performance (yes we use rust and clickhouse) Weights and Biases is super unperformant, their logger blocks user code... logging should not be blocking, yet they got away with it. We do the right thing by being non blocking. Would love any thoughts / feedbacks / roasts etc
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A platform to build, publish, and manage native apps
2017 · shoutem.github.io · its alternatives →
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This is a personal project I've been working on and off for the past few years. It's a set of tools that have allowed me to prototype quickly small (and increasingly bigger) kernels, and create userspace programs to interact with them. Supports riscv64, amd64 and i386. The intel port has been tested and used on real hardware, from big dual-socket Xeon machines to an old X220. It is all C, I have plan to make rust bindings for the kernel library. But again, they're plans at this stage. Porting to new architectures is relatively simple, a basic port to riscv took me a couple of weeks of…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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So, I've never written a line of Rust in my life. I wouldn't know an `&mut this` from a mutandis. But I saw a tweet about a month ago that said, in this new era of AI, you'd be able to just take a library that you love, throw a TUI around it, and call it an app. So I spent about 200 bucks last month, here's what I came up with: Imbolc is a DAW that runs entirely in your terminal. It talks to scsynth over OSC and ships 58 instruments and 39 effects. VSTs are a work in progress, also GarageBand loops if you want to recreate "Umbrella". The codebase is about 60k? lines of Rust across 5 crates,…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An Erlang library for carefully refactoring critical paths - sthadka/fuge
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've built a small compiler, heavily inspired by Svelte, that leans on modern web standards and proposals, namely Web Components, HTML Modules, and Signals. Although web components never really took off, I still believe they have strong potential as a foundation for building web applications without relying on a framework. GitHub: https://github.com/GuillaumeDucret/drop Blog post: https://guillaumeducret.medium.com/web-components-and-my-que... I’d appreciate some feedback before committing more time to this project !
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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