libcello

There are also libraries such as libCello[0] and Viola[1] (mine) to really simplify C through macros.

Fire up a text editor and write you some libCello code without this highlighting and it probably won't feel as nice.

What are some other libraries, like libCello, that help with c in syntactic-sugary ways?

After seeing this I started work on a simplification of libCello called Viola [0].

If you find this interesting, you might like libcello.h aswell!

I've tried to compile Libcello with cosmopolitan with little to no success, I don't think the Ruby runtime will be any easier sadly.

This essentially bypasses C's typechecker for libCello code.

I spent the last hour trying to get the example programs on the front page of the libCello site to compile on OS X (10.8.4).

I've read with great interest the source of libCello when I first saw it a few days ago on reddit, it seems like a fun experiment.

This is exactly what I needed for my project, Viola[1], that provides an abstraction on top of libCello[2] to allow you to write really high-level C.

I always get asked two questions about libCello.

There are C frameworks you could use but my point is that you would come across problems that have already been solved, and you would have to solve them again, but this time for libCello.

The downside is that libCello code is essentially untyped, but the upsides are that the C preprocessor is now enough to do the processing needed for the rest of the macros in the language, and that you can still mix regular typed C with libCello code for a "best of both worlds" mix.

Libcello has its share of latent macro bugs, but it doesn't seem particularly bad.