You can use something like GitHub or Conan to find specific useful C libraries. There isn't a universally recognized "standard library replacement" (and people

You can use something like GitHub or Conan to find specific useful C libraries. There isn't a universally recognized "standard library replacement" (and people argue about what parts of the standard library they don't like), but here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/486383/safer-alternatives-to-the-c-standard-library https://stackoverflow.com/questions/486383/safer-alternative... are a few options: * Glib (the basis for Gtk): https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib.html https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib.html * The Apache Portable Runtime (APR): http://apr.apache.org/ http://apr.apache.org/ Caveat: I haven't used them.