Violet is a C++20 and higher library that extends the current C++ standard library with enriching types coming from a Rust developer and cross-platform libraries that are readily avaliable.
Important
Violet is 100% experimental software and may not work as intended! Please report bugs via GitHub Issues! Violet is also NOT production ready either! things will break!!!
Violet uses a rather unique versioning scheme: year.month.revision (i.e, 25.09.01).
We decided on this because it is very easy to see when a version of the library was released and doesn't enforce "breaking/change" semantics like SemVer, we depend on release timing for the scope of the library.
Violet aims to be buildable on most popular C++ build systems, which include:
- Bazel 7.6 or higher
- CMake 3.25 or higher
- Meson 1.1 or higher
and the following compilers:
- Clang 20 or higher
- GCC 14 or higher
Violet also supports C++ 20 or higher.
Using Violet in Bazel is the most trivial and most supported build system as we use Bazel extensively at Noelware. We only support Bzlmod and not the legacy WORKSPACE system.
We also aim to have Violet avaliable on BCR soon.
bazel_dep(name = "violet", version = "26.01") # you can pin `version` to what .violet-version says
git_override(
module_name = "violet",
remote = "https://github.com/Noelware/violet.git",
commit = "<pinned commit here>"
)CMake is officially supported as of Violet 25.11. It's not usually up-to-date since at Noelware, we use Bazel but we try to.
At the moment, we don't provide pkg-config recipes yet but you can use CMake's FetchContent:
FetchContent_Declare(
violet
GIT_REPOSITORY "https://github.com/Noelware/violet.git"
GIT_TAG "<git tag here>"
)
# Disable installing for Violet
set(VIOLET_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(violet)Meson is not supported as of this current release. We have a basic meson.build but we won't add support unless necessary or if multiple people need support.
Violet is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License with love and care by Noelware, LLC..