Abscom¶

Abscom is a C11 library of reusable data structures and platform utilities, plus a Python-inspired dynamic runtime for scripting-style C programs.

Zero third-party C dependencies — just the standard library, plus ws2_32 on Windows.
Dynamic array, growable string, hash functions, and an open-addressing hash map.
Monotonic/wall-clock time and simple file I/O helpers.
Runtime: var values, lists, dictionaries, sets, JSON, random utilities, functional helpers, and a light object system.
Scientific & AI/ML: matrices, statistics, general math (number theory, geometry, complex numbers), CSV, threading, plus activations, softmax, MSE loss, and numerical gradients.
Data science: NumPy-style reshaping and generators, Pandas-style CSV, functional utils, one-hot encoding, and train/test splits.
Ultimate: computational backends (AVX/GPU), scalar autograd, PPM vision and convolution, plotting, and a mixed-type DataFrame.
Spatial math: modern type aliases, anonymous-union 2D/3D/4D vectors, fixed-size matrices, and quaternions.
Macro utilities: min/max/clamp, interpolation and smoothstep curves, generic swap, array/struct introspection, bitwise and alignment helpers, and AI activation macros.

Get started¶


Getting Started	First steps and a walkthrough.
Installation	Install via the one-line installer or build from source.
Core library	Common macros, dynamic arrays, strings, hashing, hash maps, time, file I/O.
Runtime	Lifecycle, literals, lists and ranges, dictionaries, sets, JSON, and more.

Quick look¶

#include "abscom/abs.h"

int main(void) {
    abs_init();
    var nums = List();
    append(nums, v(10));
    append(nums, v(20));
    append(nums, v(30));
    print(v("Sum:"), sum_val(nums));
    abs_cleanup();
    return 0;
}

cc -std=c11 hello.c -Iinclude build/libabscom.a -o hello
./hello

Expected output: Sum: 60.

One-line install¶

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rkriad585/Abscom/main/installer.ps1 | iex

Linux and macOS:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rkriad585/Abscom/main/installer.sh | sh

See the full README on GitHub for the complete feature list and examples.