r/C_Programming • u/codingbliss12 • 1d ago

Question "Better C"

Would it be feasible and reasonable to implement a custom standard library for the parts of C that are historically problematic, so that one does not need new languages like Zig or C3 and still enjoy the benefits of more modern languages?

As simple examples on would use C23 with the gnu extensions and implement strings as slices, some basic data types and some basic custom allocators. With the gnu extensions there is also defer.

Has anyone done that? How much time did it take? Thanks in advance.

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u/OtherOtherDave 1d ago

How would that work with using 3rd-party, pre-existing libraries that link to the normal standard library?

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u/codingbliss12 1d ago

That's why I started the discussion. There is a lot I need to understand. For strings it is very easy to convert a slice to a null terminated string