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Awesome Beef

A curated list of awesome Beef frameworks, libraries and resources.

Inspired by awesome-python.

Summary

• Official Resources
• Tools
  • Installers
  • LSP
  • Editors
• Frameworks and Libraries
  • Algorithms
    • Colors
    • Cryptography and Hashing
    • Noise
  • Audio
  • Caching
  • Command Line Interface Development
  • Coroutines
  • Game Development
    • Engines
    • Frameworks
    • Libraries
  • Font
  • GUI
  • IoC
  • Image
  • Linq
  • Logging
  • Multimedia
  • Networking
  • Scripting Engines
  • Serialization
  • Themes
  • Text Processing
• Projects and Articles
  • Dynamic Linking
  • Networking
• Contributing

Official resources

The official documentation and resource for the Beef programming language.

• Official website - Official website of the Beef programming language.
• Official documentation - Official documentation explaining how the language works and its philosophy.
• Corelib documentation - Auto generated documentation for the core library.
• Official repository - Repository hosting the language and its associated IDE.

Tools

LSP

Beef LSP - An unofficial LSP server which works with any LSP-compatible editor and a Visual Studio Code extension.

Editors

Try Beef - A web based editor for compiling and running simple Beef programs.

Frameworks and Libraries

Algorithms

Libraries providing implementations of algorithms

Colors

• RGBeef - Create, convert, and manipulate color spaces.

Cryptography and Hashing

• Beef-Hash - Collection of hashing algorithms.
• Beef-OpenSSL - Beef port of OpenSSL.

Noise

• FastNoise_Beef - Beef port of the FastNoise Lite library.

Audio

• Beef-FMOD - Beef bindings for the FMOD audio processing library.
• BeefBass - Beef Wrapper for the 'Bass' Audio Library.

Caching

• System.Caching - A BeefLang implementation of .net System.Runtime.Caching, useful to prevent double-triggering, response caching, data caching, etc.

Command Line Interface Development

Libraries for building CLI applications

• CowieCLI - Awesome command line arguments parsing library.

Coroutines

Libraries related to coroutines and multithread programming

• Minicoro-beef - Wrapper for the C asymetric coroutines library.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries and frameworks.

Engines

• Strawberry - A 2D game engine using SDL, focused on usability and simplicity.
• Tilengine-beef - Beef Language wrapper for Tilengine 2D Graphics Engine.

Frameworks

• Pile - A simple extendable game framework.
• Raylib-beef - Autogenerated raylib bindings for the newest version of raylib.
• Raylib-beef 3.7 - Handmade bindings for the version 3.7 of raylib.

Libraries

• BGFX-beef - A Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
  • Also linked in the official BGFX repository.
• Box2D-beef - 2D physics engine for games.
• Bulkan - Low level Vulkan bindings.
• Chipmunk2D-beef - A simple, lightweight, fast and portable 2D rigid body physics library.
• directx-beef - Beef wrapper library for Direct3D 11.
• Dxc-Beef - DirectXShaderCompiler bindings
• Glfw-beef - Beef wrapper library for GLFW.
• Opengl-beef - OpenGL loader for Beef.
• SDL2-beef - SDL2 Wrapper, synced with SDL2 shipped with Beef.
• SDL3-Beef - A binding for SDL3 to Beef, trying to be as close to the original interface as possible.
• Shaderc-beef - A Beef wrapper library for Shaderc.
• sokol-beef - Auto generated library for sokol headers.
• SoLoud-beef - easy to use, free, portable c/c++ audio engine for games.
• SPIRV-Cross-Beef - SPIRV-Cross bindings.
• WGPU-beef - Beef wrapper library for WGPU (more specifically wgpu-native).

Font

• BeefFNT - A Beef library for reading and writing AngelCode bitmap fonts in binary, XML, and text.

GUI

Libraries and frameworks for general GUI programming

• ImGui
  • ImGui-beef - Beef wrapper library for ImGui.
  • ImGuibgfx-beef - ImGui wrapper using SDL2 and BGFX.
  • ImGui-Vulkan-beef - Vulkan backend for Dear ImGui in Beef.
• Mince - A GUI Toolkit for use with the Beef Programming Language.
• NativeFileDialog-beef - Portable library to invoke native file dialogs.
• Ultralight-beef - Write UI code for your game/application with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) using a lightweight web renderer.

IoC

Inversion of Control libraries and frameworks

• Steak.DependencyInjection - Simple dependency injection library.

Image

Libraries for image loading and processing

• StbImageBeef - Beef port of the stb_image.h C header library.

Linq

Linq related libraries.

• Beef.Linq - An awesome Beef library to mimic .NETs linq, but better and faster.

Logging

Logging libraries and frameworks.

• Steak.Logging - An awesome logging library for Beef.

Multimedia

Multimedia related libraries.

• FFmpeg-Beef - FFmpeg bindings for BeefLang.

Networking

Networking related libraries

• Beef-Net - BeefLang networking library, based on lNet

Scripting Engines

Awesome scripting libraries.

• KeraLua-Beef - Native bindings of Lua 5.4 for BeefLang
• Lua-beef - BeefLang wrapper library for Lua.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing and parsing text

• Atma.Json - Json serialization framework.
• Beef-toml - Toml parser/serializer library.
• bon - A reflection based structure serialization library designed for Beef.
• json - A light arbitrary JSON tree read and write library.
• Xml-Beef - Single-file XML parser in Beef with doctype support.

Themes

IDE themes.

• Base16TomorrowDark - Base 16 Tomorrow Dark Theme.
• Dracula - Dracula theme.
• OneDarkPro - Atom's iconic One Dark theme.
• SimplyDark - Simple dark theme.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• TinyRegex - Tiny implementation of a subset of Regex.

Projects and Articles

To show or explain what beef is capable of.

Dynamic Linking

• Beef DLL Creation & Research - Showcase of a fully functional Beef DLL.

Networking

• SampleListener - Example of an echo server showing the use of System.Net.Socket to listen for clients connections.

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Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

I will keep some pull requests open if I'm not sure whether those libraries are awesome, you could vote for them by adding 👍 to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach 20.