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nsync is a portable C library that provides a collection of advanced synchronization primitives designed to facilitate safe and efficient multithreaded programming. It offers reader-writer locks, condition variables, run-once initialization, waitable counters, and waitable bits for coordination and cancellation between threads. Unlike traditional pthreads-based synchronization, nsync introduces conditional critical sections, allowing developers to wait for arbitrary conditions without...

MicroQuickJS (MQuickJS) is a compact JavaScript engine designed specifically for embedded systems where memory and storage are extremely limited. Its primary goal is to compile and run JavaScript programs using minimal RAM, making it suitable for microcontrollers and constrained devices that cannot host a full-featured runtime. The engine is intentionally small in ROM footprint while still providing practical performance comparable to lightweight desktop-grade embeddable engines in its...

An opaque typedef provides a customizable copy of an existing type, not simply a type alias. This makes safer interfaces possible by prohibiting implicit conversions and accidental interactions with other types, makes it possible to overload, and through customization you can precisely control the semantic interoperability of your type with other types.

The C++ Core Guidelines is a living set of best-practice recommendations for writing modern, safe, and maintainable C++. Authored and curated by leaders in the C++ community, it organizes guidance into rules on type and resource safety, interfaces, performance, error handling, concurrency, and library design. Each rule is rationale-driven, showing the “why” behind recommendations and linking to examples that illustrate good and bad patterns. The guidelines encourage use of modern language...

Corrode is an experimental translator that converts C code into Rust, intended to help migrate existing C codebases toward safer Rust idioms. It parses C, maps C types and constructs into Rust equivalents, and generates code that compiles under rustc, introducing unsafe only when necessary. The tool seeks to produce readable Rust that a developer can then refine by hand, rather than a perfect one-to-one mechanical translation.