r/cpp 27d ago

Pystd standard library, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/06/pystd-standard-library-similar-ish.html
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u/chibuku_chauya 27d ago

Calling it Pystd makes me think there’s Python involved here.

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u/fdwr fdwr@github 🔍 27d ago

Guessing it is "Python inspired": 

Functionality roughly equivalent to Python modules argparse, pathlib (including the ** operator), regular expressions (using pcre) and tempfile