Dynace Object-Oriented Extension to C

Dynace is a portable, open-source extension to the C language that adds the following capabilities to standard C:

full object-oriented capabilities including
- classes, instances, methods, & generic functions
- encapsulation
- polymorphism
- inheritance (multiple)
fully meta-class based (like Smalltalk)
dynamic binding and dispatching through generic functions (like CLOS)
garbage collection
threads (supports cooperative and native threads)
full class library

Dynace:

written in standard C
includes over 300 pages of documentation (https://blakemcbride.github.io/Dynace/manual/Dynace.pdf)
step-by-step tutorials
using classes involves no new syntax elements to standard C
easily added to existing C code

Dynace is portable across:

16, 32 & 64 bit environments
Linux
Mac OS X (intel & M?)
Windows (all versions)
BSD
Solaris / OpenIndiana
Haiku
Plan 9
Minix

Dynace is production quality and has been used in commercial environments for more than ten years.

Dynace was written to solve perceived problems with C++ as outlined in the user manual.

Dynace is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Source code at: https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace

Discussion is at: https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace/discussions

Report issues at: https://github.com/blakemcbride/Dynace/issues

System overview is at: docs/ORIENT.txt

Build instructions are at: docs/BUILD.txt

Support

Commercial support is available from [email protected]

Please help fund this project at https://www.gofundme.com/dynace