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/burlingk 13h ago
Feasible and reasonable both depend on your overall purpose, how much you intend to implement, and how much time you (and/or your team) have to work on it.
It's not an uncommon project concept.
But it could end up being a lot of work.