libdill: Structured Concurrency for C

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Libdill is a C library that makes writing structured concurrent programs easy.

The following example launches two concurrent worker functions that print "Hello!" or "World!", respectively, at random intervals. The program runs for five seconds and then it shuts down.

#include <libdill.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

coroutine void worker(const char *text) {
    while(1) {
        printf("%s\n", text);
        msleep(now() + random() % 500);
    }
}

int main() {
    go(worker("Hello!"));
    go(worker("World!"));
    msleep(now() + 5000);
    return 0;
}

Code dependent on libdill is compiled like any other C code. The only extra requirement is that it be linked with libdill library:

$ cc -ldill -o hello hello.c

Libdill is licensed under the MIT/X11 license.