Trending C Projects

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Top 50 Trending C Projects

  • valkey

    A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. We're calling it Valkey, since it's a twist on the key-value datastore.

  • Friend

    AI wearable with 24h+ battery

  • fastfetch

    Like neofetch, but much faster because written mostly in C.

  • dune3d

    3D CAD application

  • Fallout2_Restoration_Project

    Fallout 2 Restoration Project, updated

  • espeak-ng

    eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.

  • xess

  • unikraft

    A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.

  • scx

    sched_ext schedulers and tools

  • bpftop

    bpftop provides a dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs. It displays the average runtime, events per second, and estimated total CPU % for each program.

  • hypopg

    Hypothetical Indexes for PostgreSQL

  • onyx

    ✨ The compiler and developer toolchain for Onyx (by onyx-lang)

  • esp-drone

    Mini Drone/Quadcopter Firmware for ESP32 and ESP32-S Series SoCs.

  • quickjs

    QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine (by quickjs-ng)

  • firedancer

    Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana consensus node implementation.

  • pgvector

    Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

  • 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.

  • foldseek

    Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

  • STC

    A modern, user friendly, generic, type-safe and fast C99 container library: String, Vector, Sorted and Unordered Map and Set, Deque, Forward List, Smart Pointers, Bitset and Random numbers. (by stclib)

  • immortalwrt

    An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.

  • os

    Main package repository for production Wolfi images (by wolfi-dev)

  • libsql

    libSQL is a fork of SQLite that is both Open Source, and Open Contributions.

  • lantern

    PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications

  • avrdude

    AVRDUDE is a utility to program AVR microcontrollers

  • freeswitch

    FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.

  • beyla

    eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics

  • nut

    The Network UPS Tools repository. UPS management protocol Informational RFC 9271 published by IETF at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9271 Please star NUT on GitHub, this helps with sponsorships!

  • Windows-Research-Kernel-WRK-

    Windows Research Kernel Source Code

  • modern-embedded-programming-course

    Companion repository to the "Modern Embedded Systems Programming" video course.

  • zap

    blazingly fast backends in zig (by zigzap)

  • gtkwave

    GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which reads LXT, LXT2, VZT, FST, and GHW files as well as standard Verilog VCD/EVCD files and allows their viewing.

  • BlackHole

    BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.

  • UxPlay

    AirPlay Unix mirroring server (by FDH2)

  • xtouch

  • T-Display-S3

  • mm

    Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

  • libui-ng

    libui-ng: a portable GUI library for C. "libui for the next generation"

  • pygame-ce

    🐍🎮 pygame - Community Edition is a FOSS Python library for multimedia applications (like games). Built on top of the excellent SDL library.

  • phoenix

    Phoenix is a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet using Lightning to send/receive payments. (by ACINQ)

  • pg_hint_plan

    Extension adding support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL

  • mayhem-firmware

    Custom firmware for the HackRF+PortaPack H1/H2

  • xnu

  • Prusa-Firmware-Buddy

    Firmware for the Original Prusa MINI, Original Prusa MK4 and the Original Prusa XL 3D printers by Prusa Research.

  • JDSP4Linux

    An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

  • mupdf

    mupdf mirror

  • xemu

    Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)

  • 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.

  • esp-skainet

    Espressif intelligent voice assistant

  • telescope-fzf-native.nvim

    FZF sorter for telescope written in c

  • Onion

    OS overhaul for Miyoo Mini and Mini+

ABOUT: The growth percentage is calculated as the increase in the number of stars compared to the previous month. We list only projects that have at least 500 stars and a GitHub organization logo set.

Index

What are some of the trending open-source C projects? This list will help you:

Project Growth
1 valkey 95.1%
2 Friend 90.3%
3 fastfetch 67.9%
4 dune3d 33.0%
5 Fallout2_Restoration_Project 26.1%
6 espeak-ng 24.1%
7 xess 20.6%
8 unikraft 18.8%
9 scx 16.1%
10 bpftop 15.5%
11 hypopg 14.6%
12 onyx 13.3%
13 esp-drone 11.3%
14 quickjs 11.2%
15 firedancer 10.1%
16 pgvector 9.5%
17 rsync 9.2%
18 foldseek 9.1%
19 STC 9.0%
20 immortalwrt 8.9%
21 os 8.4%
22 libsql 8.3%
23 lantern 8.3%
24 avrdude 7.9%
25 freeswitch 7.7%
26 beyla 7.7%
27 nut 7.6%
28 Windows-Research-Kernel-WRK- 7.5%
29 modern-embedded-programming-course 7.3%
30 zap 7.2%
31 gtkwave 7.2%
32 BlackHole 7.2%
33 UxPlay 6.9%
34 xtouch 6.9%
35 T-Display-S3 6.9%
36 mm 6.8%
37 libui-ng 6.7%
38 pygame-ce 6.7%
39 phoenix 6.5%
40 pg_hint_plan 6.4%
41 mayhem-firmware 6.4%
42 xnu 6.4%
43 Prusa-Firmware-Buddy 6.3%
44 JDSP4Linux 6.3%
45 mupdf 6.3%
46 xemu 6.3%
47 webui 6.3%
48 esp-skainet 6.2%
49 telescope-fzf-native.nvim 6.0%
50 Onion 6.0%