Show HN: SBS – A reformulation of SDS without heap allocation

3 points

4 years ago

I've been using SDS a lot and really like the library. However it sometimes feels like overkill because when I'm building strings I frequently know that it will be within some bound of length. The full dynamic length capabilities aren't necessary and can become a pain-point when doing error handling. But on the otherhand the <string.h> functions always feel very verbose to maintain.

As such to scratch my own itch this weekend, I've developed SBS. SBS reformulates SDS around providing pre-defined buffers to perform the operation on. This means no resource management and the opportunity to use it in embedded environments that do not have heap allocation.

It is still very early on (no tags yet) but I want to see if there exists other libraries in this area? All I can dig up online are built around dynamic heap allocation.