An alternative to the string library for C which is more functional and does not have buffer overflow overrun problems. Also includes a C++ wrapper. [BSD, GPL2]

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• ZXing

  9.9 6.1 L3 Better String VS ZXing

  An open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library implemented in Java, with ports to other languages. [Apache]

• stb

  9.7 4.3 L2 Better String VS stb

  A range of single-file libraries for C/C++. [PublicDomain]

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• C++ Format

  9.4 9.6 L1 Better String VS C++ Format

  Small, safe and fast formatting library for C++. [BSD]

• HTTP Parser

  9.0 1.8 L1 Better String VS HTTP Parser

  A http request/response parser for C. [MIT]

• RE2

  8.8 6.9 L1 Better String VS RE2

  A software library for regular expressions via a finite-state machine using automata theory.

• Cppcheck

  8.4 9.9 Better String VS Cppcheck

  static analysis of C/C++ code

• Klib

  8.0 3.6 L4 Better String VS Klib

  Small and lightweight implementations of common algorithms and data structures. [MIT]

• ZBar

  7.9 0.0 L3 Better String VS ZBar

  A barcode scanner library, which allows to scan photos/images/video streams for barcodes and return their value. [LGPL2]

• SDS

  7.9 0.0 L2 Better String VS SDS

  Simple Dynamic Strings library for C. [BSD]

• Serial Communication Library

  7.1 0.0 L1 Better String VS Serial Communication Library

  Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++. [MIT]

• American fuzzy lop

  6.9 2.9 Better String VS American fuzzy lop

  Crazy fuzzing tool that automatically discovers bugs given time and minimal example input. [Apache2]

• PHP-CPP

  6.7 0.5 L4 Better String VS PHP-CPP

  A library to build PHP extensions with C++. [Apache2] website

• libssh2

  6.1 6.2 Better String VS libssh2

  The SSH library

• pdqsort

  6.0 1.9 Better String VS pdqsort

  Pattern-defeating quicksort. [zlib]

• Better Enums

  5.9 4.3 L5 Better String VS Better Enums

  Reflective enums (to string, iteration). Single header. [BSD] website

• Mach7

  5.9 0.0 L2 Better String VS Mach7

  A Pattern-matching library for C++. [BSD]

• c-smart-pointers

  5.7 0.0 Better String VS c-smart-pointers

  Smart pointers for the (GNU) C programming language. [MIT]

• Experimental Boost.DI

  5.3 4.1 L3 Better String VS Experimental Boost.DI

  C++14 Dependency Injection Library

• stdman

  4.9 2.0 Better String VS stdman

  Formatted C++11/14 stdlib man pages (from cppreference). [MIT]

• UNITS

  4.9 2.9 L3 Better String VS UNITS

  a compile-time, header-only, dimensional analysis and unit conversion library built on c++14 with no dependencies.

• SLRE

  4.6 1.2 L3 Better String VS SLRE

  Super Light Regexp engine for C/C++. [GPL2/Commercial]

• constexpr-8cc

  4.6 0.0 L3 Better String VS constexpr-8cc

  Compile-time C Compiler implemented as C++14 constant expressions

• cxx-prettyprint

  4.4 0.0 L5 Better String VS cxx-prettyprint

  A pretty printing library for C++ containers. [Boost]

• Stage

  4.3 0.7 L1 Better String VS Stage

  Mobile robot simulator. [GPL2]

• DynaMix

  4.2 4.6 Better String VS DynaMix

  A new take on polymorphism in C++

• CppVerbalExpressions

  3.9 0.0 L5 Better String VS CppVerbalExpressions

  C++ regular expressions made easy. [MIT]

• outcome

  3.9 7.2 Better String VS outcome

  Provides very lightweight outcome<T> and result<T> (non-Boost edition)

• value-category-cheatsheet

  3.7 0.0 Better String VS value-category-cheatsheet

  A PDF cheatsheet for lvalues, rvalues, and the like. [Jank copyleft]

• libcpuid

  3.6 6.3 L2 Better String VS libcpuid

  A small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction. [BSD]

• kangaru

  3.5 2.1 L5 Better String VS kangaru

  Kangaru is a dependency injection container library for C++11 and C++14

• STX

  3.5 8.6 Better String VS STX

  C++ 20 error-handling and utility extensions.

• neither

  3.2 0.0 Better String VS neither

  Either and Maybe monads for better error-handling in C++ ↔️

• libusb

  3.0 0.0 Better String VS libusb

  A universal USB library which allows for portable access to USB devices. [LGPL2]

• leaf

  3.0 8.6 Better String VS leaf

  Lightweight Error Augmentation Framework

• casacore

  3.0 7.3 L1 Better String VS casacore

  A set of c++ core libraries derived from aips++. [LGPL]

• gcc-poison

  2.9 0.0 Better String VS gcc-poison

  A simple header file for developers to ban unsafe C/C++ functions from applications.

• StrTk

  2.9 0.0 Better String VS StrTk

  A C++ library consisting of high performance string processing routines. [MIT]

• semver.c

  2.8 0.0 L5 Better String VS semver.c

  A semver parser and render in ANSI C. [MIT]

• ub-canaries

  2.7 0.0 L4 Better String VS ub-canaries

  A collection of C/C++ programs that try to get compilers to exploit undefined behavior.

• libnih

  2.6 0.0 L2 Better String VS libnih

  A lightweight library of C functions and structures. [GPL2.1]

• Boost.Signals

  2.5 3.3 L2 Better String VS Boost.Signals

  An implementation of a managed signals and slots system. [Boost]

• sigslot

  2.4 0.0 L5 Better String VS sigslot

  C++ Signal/Slot Library. [PublicDomain]

• QtVerbalExpressions

  2.2 0.0 L5 Better String VS QtVerbalExpressions

  This Qt lib is based off of the C++ VerbalExpressions library. [MIT]

• libsigc++

  2.1 0.7 L5 Better String VS libsigc++

  A typesafe callback system for standard C++. [LGPL]

• access_profiler

  2.1 0.0 L5 Better String VS access_profiler

  A tool to count accesses to member variables in c++ programs. [GPL3]

• FastFormat

  2.0 0.0 Better String VS FastFormat

  Fast, Safe C++ Formatting inspired by log4j and Pantheios [Simplified BSD]

• strf

  1.9 8.3 Better String VS strf

  A fast C++ formatting library that supports encoding conversion.

• Scintilla

  1.8 0.0 L1 Better String VS Scintilla

  A free source code editing component. [MIT]

• CommonPP

  1.8 0.0 L4 Better String VS CommonPP

  Small library helping you with basic stuff like getting metrics out of your code, thread naming, etc.

• libevil

  1.7 0.0 L4 Better String VS libevil

  The Evil License Manager. [GPLv3]

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