hinder

A collection of useful C++ libraries.

To hinder something is to make doing that thing more difficult. I chose this name because it is an antonym of boost: my second favorite C++ library. Hopefully, hinder also boosts your productivity despite the play on words! 😉

In part this library is the evolution of an earlier attempt to modernize and then share code I have written over the years. Also, I want to provide some capabilities that I wish were in the C++ standard, Boost, or other libraries. I would also be ecstatic if you contributed too!

Goals

• Easy to use but hard to misuse.
• Flexible but clear, simple, and clean.
• High performance but clear, simple, and clean.
• Container and cloud friendly.
• Do as much at compile-time as possible.
• Use the latest C++ standard, techniques, and practices.
• Prefer the standard library, libraries on track for standardization, or Boost.

Documentation and Usage

See the documentation in the doc directory.

Compilers and Platforms

C++ Standard

If you do not set CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD, the default is C++17. At the moment, the minimum supported standard is C++11.

Compilers

• Clang
• GCC

Platforms

• Linux
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa; LTS)

See the container directory for tools to create reference containers (via Docker or Podman) with everything you need to build this library. If you have trouble building this library on your Linux distribution, please report it. But, if you can, try one of the reference containers.

Dependencies

See the documentation for details.

Build Options

See the documentation for details.

Installing

mkdir -p <path>/build
git clone https://github.com/tonywalker1/hinder <path>
cd <path>/build
cmake <options> ..
make -j
make install

Contributing

I would love suggestions, fixes, documentation, examples, and other contributions. I would also be interested in help supporting other platforms. See CONTRIBUTING and CODE_OF_CONDUCT for details.

See CONTRIBUTORS for a list of contributors.