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Trending C Repositories
- box86 Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices
- qoi The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression
- tinyproxy tinyproxy - a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
- limine Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader.
- flecs A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++
- FFmpeg Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
- citus Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
- jq Command-line JSON processor
- raylib A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
- cuda-samples Samples for CUDA Developers which demonstrates features in CUDA Toolkit
- xv6-riscv Xv6 for RISC-V
- kcat Generic command line non-JVM Apache Kafka producer and consumer
- quickjs Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine. Pull requests are not accepted. Use the mailing list to submit patches.
- lz4 Extremely Fast Compression algorithm
- pg_cron Run periodic jobs in PostgreSQL
- olive.c Simple 2D Graphics Library for C
- webview Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++/Golang. Uses WebKit (Gtk/Cocoa) and Edge (Windows)
- poco The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.
- bloomz.cpp C++ implementation for BLOOM
- retro Retro Games in Gym
- libuv Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
- entr Run arbitrary commands when files change
- pgbackrest Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore
- stb stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
- PrivKit PrivKit is a simple beacon object file that detects privilege escalation vulnerabilities caused by misconfigurations on Windows OS.
- Tasmota Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at
- HandBrake HandBrake's main development repository
- openwrt-passwall A commonly used proxy toolchain for Openwrt LuCI Application.
- scrcpy Display and control your Android device
- wazuh Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
- json.c A fast 0 alloc JSON parser for C
- w2c2 Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C
- misc Clippings
- rufus The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
- kcp :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol
- INSTA INSTA - Instant Volumetric Head Avatars [CVPR2023]
- permafrost-engine An OpenGL RTS game engine written in C
- TDengine TDengine is an open source, high-performance, cloud native time-series database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT), Connected Cars, Industrial IoT and DevOps.
- box64 Box64 - Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM64 Linux devices
- timescaledb An open-source time-series SQL database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. Packaged as a PostgreSQL extension.
- tini A tiny but valid `init` for containers
- valent Connect, control and sync devices
- DOOM DOOM Open Source Release
- postgres Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
- sioyek Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
- Bunki A simple C coroutine library.
- nullmap Using CVE-2023-21768 to manual map kernel mode driver
- CRoaring Roaring bitmaps in C (and C++), with SIMD (AVX2, AVX-512 and NEON) optimizations
- bhook :fire: ByteHook is an Android PLT hook library which supports armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a, x86 and x86_64.
- sqlite-gui Lightweight SQLite editor for Windows
- quibble Quibble - the custom Windows bootloader
- arduino-esp32 Arduino core for the ESP32
- aolserver AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server. AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server used for large scale, dynamic web sites.
- openwrt This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
- purple-teams A MS Teams plugin for libpurple/Pidgin
- lvgl Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type. It's boosted by a professional yet affordable drag and drop UI editor, called SquareLine Studio.
- bpf-developer-tutorial eBPF 开发者教程与知识库：通过 20 个小工具一步步学习 eBPF（尝试教会 ChatGPT 编写 eBPF 程序）
- libgit2 A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.
- mosquitto Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
- bcc BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more
- keyd A key remapping daemon for linux.
- ffmpeg-libav-tutorial FFmpeg libav tutorial - learn how media works from basic to transmuxing, transcoding and more. Translations: 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇳
- nnn n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
- quickjs-rs Rust wrapper for the quickjs Javascript engine.
- Mailspring :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
- tetragon eBPF-based Security Observability and Runtime Enforcement
- dji-firmware-tools Tools for handling firmwares of DJI products, with focus on quadcopters.
- wasm-micro-runtime WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)
- ENGAGE Source code repository for ENGAGE: Battery-Free Game Boy
- RediSearch A query and indexing engine for Redis, providing secondary indexing, full-text search, and aggregations.
- dperf dperf is a DPDK based 100Gbps network performance and load testing software.
- mpv 🎥 Command line video player
- flipperzero-firmware Flipper Zero firmware source code
- urler command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation
- Nuklear A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
- vlc VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/
- htop htop - an interactive process viewer
- processhacker A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
- smartdns A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH. 一个本地DNS服务器，获取最快的网站IP，获得最佳上网体验，支持DoH，DoT。
- git Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
- ch32v003fun My tests for the CH32V003, a 10 cent 48 MHz RISC-V Microcontroller
- nanopb Protocol Buffers with small code size
- tmux tmux source code
- tpotce 🍯 T-Pot - The All In One Honeypot Platform 🐝
- tectonic A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.
- Ventoy A new bootable USB solution.
- WindTerm A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
- llama.go llama.go is like llama.cpp in pure Golang!
- zlib A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.
- the_silver_searcher A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
- libvips A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
- SoftEtherVPN Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.
- glfw A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
- rpi4-osdev Tutorial: Writing a "bare metal" operating system for Raspberry Pi 4
- curio A data-first security scanner that finds risks and vulnerabilities in your code so you can protect sensitive data (PHI, PD, PII).
- react-native-webassembly ⚛️ 🏎 WebAssembly for React Native powered by JSI.
- littlefs A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
- firmware-open System76 Open Firmware
- learning-ebpf Learning eBPF, published by O'Reilly - coming spring 2023!
- pcileech Direct Memory Access (DMA) Attack Software
- go-sqlite3 sqlite3 driver for go using database/sql
- llama.cpp Port of Facebook's LLaMA model in C/C++
- IronOS Open Source Soldering Iron firmware for Miniware and Pinecil
- wasm3 🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime
- kit A tiny library for making small games with big pixels
- brotli Brotli compression format
- linux Linux kernel source tree
- doomenstein-3d Wolfenstein/DOOM style software renderers
- wpunix WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals
- fastLLaMa fastLLaMa: An experimental high-performance framework for running Decoder-only LLMs with 4-bit quantization in Python using a C/C++ backend.
- rizin UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset.
- compis Contemporary systems programming language in the spirit of C
- arduino-pico Raspberry Pi Pico Arduino core, for all RP2040 boards
- patchelf A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables
- ggml Tensor library for machine learning
- nvtop GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
- MangoHud A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb
- btrfs WinBtrfs - an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
- blender Official mirror of Blender
- XNNPACK High-efficiency floating-point neural network inference operators for mobile, server, and Web
- janet A dynamic language and bytecode vm
- amx Apple AMX Instruction Set
- qmk_firmware Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
- ir Lightweight JIT Compilation Framework
- rsync An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.
- Tokenizer Kernel Mode Driver for Elevating Process Privileges
- espeak-ng eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
- opencv-mobile The minimal opencv for Android, iOS, ARM Linux, Windows, Linux, MacOS, WebAssembly
- webui Use any web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable lib.
- capstone Capstone disassembly/disassembler framework: Core (Arm, Arm64, BPF, EVM, M68K, M680X, MOS65xx, Mips, PPC, RISCV, Sparc, SystemZ, TMS320C64x, Web Assembly, X86, X86_64, XCore) + bindings.
- neuralnet Toy neural network
- wordgrinder A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done.
- blurhash A very compact representation of a placeholder for an image.
- ipmitool An open-source tool for controlling IPMI-enabled systems
- hash-prospector Automated integer hash function discovery
- open-gpu-kernel-modules NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source
- wrk Modern HTTP benchmarking tool
- linux-wifi-hotspot Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux which provides both GUI and command-line interface. It is also able to create a hotspot using the same wifi card which is connected to an AP already ( Similar to Windows 10).
- microui A tiny immediate-mode UI library
- systemd The systemd System and Service Manager
- yara The pattern matching swiss knife
- rt-thread RT-Thread is an open source IoT operating system.
- AFLplusplus The fuzzer afl++ is afl with community patches, qemu 5.1 upgrade, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!
- RetroArch Cross-platform, sophisticated frontend for the libretro API. Licensed GPLv3.
- xdotool fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more
- SketchyBar A highly customizable macOS status bar replacement
- mimalloc mimalloc is a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance.
- riscv-gnu-toolchain GNU toolchain for RISC-V, including GCC
- obs-studio OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
- ebpf-for-windows eBPF implementation that runs on top of Windows
- esp-idf Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
- BlackHole BlackHole is a modern macOS virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
- mujoco Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.
- sqlwrite SQLwrite: AI in your DBMS! Automatically converts natural language queries to SQL.
- blink tiniest x86-64-linux emulator
- radare2 UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
- ExplorerPatcher This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
- sumatrapdf SumatraPDF reader
- hashcat World's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility
- android-inline-hook :fire: ShadowHook is an Android inline hook library which supports thumb, arm32 and arm64.
- age Graph database optimized for fast analysis and real-time data processing. It is provided as an extension to PostgreSQL.
- skhd Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
- libhooker libhooker OSS
- noise-suppression-for-voice Noise suppression plugin based on Xiph's RNNoise
- masscan TCP port scanner, spews SYN packets asynchronously, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes.
- EntropyReducer Reduce Entropy And Obfuscate Youre Payload With Serialized Linked Lists
- sigma-file-manager "Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / finder) app for Windows and Linux.
- chibicc A small C compiler
- php-src The PHP Interpreter
- sds Simple Dynamic Strings library for C
- coturn coturn TURN server project
- ttyd Share your terminal over the web
- liburing
- tio A simple serial device I/O tool
- rofi Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
- yugabyte-db YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.
- ImageMagick 🧙♂️ ImageMagick 7
- Chinese-Vicuna Chinese-Vicuna: A Chinese Instruction-following LLaMA-based Model —— 一个中文低资源的llama+lora方案，结构参考alpaca
- zfs OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
- zephyr Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
- Onion OS overhaul for Miyoo Mini
- ThreadlessInject-BOF BOF implementation of @_EthicalChaos_'s ThreadlessInject project. A novel process injection technique with no thread creation, released at BSides Cymru 2023.
- SBEMU legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS
- hcc WIP C Compiler to SPIR-V
- KernelSU A Kernel based root solution for Android
- zig-gamedev Building game development ecosystem for @ziglang!
- proxychains-ng proxychains ng (new generation) - a preloader which hooks calls to sockets in dynamically linked programs and redirects it through one or more socks/http proxies. continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project. the sf.net page is currently not updated, use releases from github release page instead.
- dqlite Embeddable, replicated and fault tolerant SQL engine.
- RVVM The RISC-V Virtual Machine
- ish Linux shell for iOS
- sqlean The ultimate set of SQLite extensions
- jemalloc
- bspwm A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
- Yaksha Yaksha Programming Language (WIP)
- emscripten Emscripten: An LLVM-to-WebAssembly Compiler
- pg_ivm IVM (Incremental View Maintenance) implementation as a PostgreSQL extension
- warpd A modal keyboard-driven virtual pointer
- libevent Event notification library
- TurboNeRF A render engine for NeRFs!
- lede Lean's LEDE source
- miniaudio Audio playback and capture library written in C, in a single source file.
- mac-precision-touchpad Windows Precision Touchpad Driver Implementation for Apple MacBook / Magic Trackpad
- netdata Real-time performance monitoring, done right! https://www.netdata.cloud
- sectorlisp Bootstrapping LISP in a Boot Sector
- AdAway AdAway is a free and open source ad blocker for Android.
- redis Native port of Redis for Windows. Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs. This repository contains unofficial port of Redis to Windows.
- qoa The “Quite OK Audio Format” for fast, lossy audio compression
- sanitizers AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, MemorySanitizer
- sway i3-compatible Wayland compositor
- yabai A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
- rpmalloc Public domain cross platform lock free thread caching 16-byte aligned memory allocator implemented in C
- n2n Peer-to-peer VPN
- SDL Simple Directmedia Layer
- curl A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
- proxychains proxychains - a tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy. Supported auth-types: "user/pass" for SOCKS4/5, "basic" for HTTP.
- stylehax Nintendo DSi browser exploit
- hekate hekate - A GUI based Nintendo Switch Bootloader
- goaccess GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
- micropython MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
- cosmopolitan build-once run-anywhere c library
- zstd Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
- donut Generates x86, x64, or AMD64+x86 position-independent shellcode that loads .NET Assemblies, PE files, and other Windows payloads from memory and runs them with parameters
- redis Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.
- libsodium A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.
- graftcp A flexible tool for redirecting a given program's TCP traffic to SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy.
- wireshark Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. GitHub won't let us disable pull requests. ☞ THEY WILL BE IGNORED HERE ☜ Please upload them at GitLab.
- sokol minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
- bdwgc The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)
- yyjson The fastest C JSON library
- CVE-2022-21894 baton drop (CVE-2022-21894): Secure Boot Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
- pg_tle Framework for building trusted language extensions for PostgreSQL
- Sandboxie Sandboxie Plus & Classic
- cJSON Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
- xxHash Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm
- unicorn Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc, PowerPC, RiscV, S390x, TriCore, X86)
- cockpit Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers.
- palera1n iOS 15.0-16.5 semi-tethered checkm8 jailbreak
- papermario Decompilation of Paper Mario
- CVE-2023-0179-PoC 针对（CVE-2023-0179）漏洞利用 该漏洞被分配为CVE-2023-0179，影响了从5.5到6.2-rc3的所有Linux版本，该漏洞在6.1.6上被测试。 漏洞的细节和文章可以在os-security上找到。
- qemu Official QEMU mirror. Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
- whisper.cpp Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++
- displayplacer macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS.
- openssl TLS/SSL and crypto library
- macstealer
- tigr TIGR - the TIny GRaphics library for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android.
- CMake Mirror of CMake upstream repository
- sqlite Official Git mirror of the SQLite source tree
- openvpn OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
- mac-se-video-converter Convert video from a Mac Plus/SE/Classic to a VESA VGA signal using a Raspberry Pi Pico
- PetitPotato Local privilege escalation via PetitPotam (Abusing impersonate privileges).
Top 50 Open Source C Heroes
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torvalds
149,144
2
Genymobile
77,503
3
redis
64,440
4
netdata
62,498
5
microsoft
60,246
6
google
57,725
7
obsproject
47,626
8
ventoy
46,048
9
git
45,411
10
peng-zhihui
44,311
11
espressif
37,500
12
php
35,766
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FFmpeg
34,675
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wg
33,817
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antirez
32,427
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bilibili
31,552
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openresty
30,297
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alibaba
30,094
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tmux
27,557
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facebook
26,450
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curl
26,219
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id-Software
25,956
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raspberrypi
25,663
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ggreer
25,442
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coolsnowwolf
25,202