Pipe is a cross-platform utility library used as the foundation for Rift.

Pipe simplifies and unifies operating system APIs and provides commonly missing tools in C++. However, it is in no way just a merge of random libraries into one. It follows the simple principle of "low-level essentials you wouldn't want to integrate/code every time in your projects".

Pipe also has the secondary objective of unifying many coding standards into one to make code consistent and legible.

This library is separated into a set of modules so that you can use only what is relevant to your usecase. If you feel a feature should be added feel free to propose it creating an issue.

• Containers (Array, Map, Set)
• Strings (String, StringView, FixedString)
• Tags (hashed unique strings)
• Compile-time string operations
• Extensive strings constexpr API
• Search and Sort algorithms
• Concepts and TypeTraits
• Cross-platform types
• Runtime Checks
• Improved Logging (including to file)
• Integrated Profiling
• Functions and Broadcasts (also known as delegates)

• Runtime and Compile-time reflection
• Automatic registration of reflection types
• Differentiated API for classes and structs
  (if used, classes and structs are not the same anymore and will follow different uses)

• Serialization designed for different formats
  • JSON serialization
  • Binary serialization
• Automatic serialization of reflection

• Files and directories
• File watching

• OwnPtr: Owned smart pointers
• UniquePtr
• Memory Arenas: Allow controlling allocations (without templates)
  • MonoLinearArena
  • MultiLinearArena
  • BestFitArena: Generic arena for any use
• Memory leak tracking

• Colors (RGBA, HSV, Linear, sRGB...)
• Vectors, Rotators, Quaternions
• Time and Duration

• ECS library using other modules
• Context: An instance of ECS with its entities, components and statics
• Components: One instance per entity
• Statics: Unique instances of a type
• Integration with reflection

The project's code is validated for the following platforms and compilers:

This library is also extensively tested.