libks ☆

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Description:
Foundational support for signalwire C products

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Jan 18, 2026

Links: Homepage | GitHub | @signalwire | formulae.brew.sh

Stars: 47 | Forks: 74 | Language: C | Category: Networking

Tags: c-library signalwire utilities voip foundation

Install: brew install libks

About:
libks is a foundational C library that provides essential utilities and abstractions for SignalWire's communication products. It offers core functionalities like memory management, logging, threading, and data structures, enabling consistent and efficient development across SignalWire's C-based projects. Its main value is providing a reliable, high-performance base layer for building real-time communication software.

Key Features:

Memory pooling and management utilities
Cross-platform threading and synchronization primitives
Modular logging system with various backends
Common data structures (hash tables, queues, etc.)
Event loop and asynchronous I/O support

Use Cases:

Building core components for VoIP or WebRTC servers and clients
Developing high-performance, low-level communication libraries that require portable abstractions

Alternatives:

glib – GLib is a more general-purpose, full-featured utility library for C, whereas libks is specifically tailored for SignalWire's communication stack and may be more lightweight for that domain.
libuv – libuv focuses strongly on asynchronous I/O and event loops, while libks provides a broader set of foundational utilities (memory, logging, data structures) for a communication software context.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jan 18, 2026 2:32pm		0	META	beca76e1