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

  • xess

  • unikraft

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

  • fastfetch

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

  • scx

    sched_ext schedulers and tools

  • hypopg

    Hypothetical Indexes for PostgreSQL

  • esp-drone

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

  • 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.

  • Windows-Research-Kernel-WRK-

    Windows Research Kernel Source Code

  • pgvector

    Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres

  • lantern

    PostgreSQL vector database extension for building AI applications

  • immortalwrt

    An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.

  • firedancer

    Firedancer is Jump Crypto's Solana consensus node implementation.

  • avrdude

    AVRDUDE is a utility to program AVR microcontrollers

  • quickjs

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

  • os

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

  • beyla

    eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of web applications and network metrics

  • foldseek

    Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.

  • libui-ng

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

  • pg_hint_plan

    Extension adding support for optimizer hints in PostgreSQL

  • Prusa-Firmware-Buddy

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

  • libsql

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

  • alaz

    Alaz: Advanced eBPF Agent for Kubernetes Observability – Effortlessly monitor K8s service interactions and performance metrics in your K8s environment. Gain in-depth insights with service maps, metrics, distributed tracing, and more, while staying alert to crucial system anomalies 🐝

  • xtouch

  • modern-embedded-programming-course

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

  • mayhem-firmware

    Custom firmware for the HackRF+PortaPack H1/H2

  • zrythm

    a highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation - official mirror

  • pygame-ce

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

  • qmk_firmware

    Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families (by Keychron)

  • rknpu2

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • JDSP4Linux

    An audio effect processor for PipeWire and PulseAudio clients

  • xv6-riscv

    Xv6 for RISC-V

  • T-Display-S3

  • lwip

    lwIP mirror from http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lwip.git (by lwip-tcpip)

  • DroneBridge

    DroneBridge is a system based on the WifiBroadcast approach. A bidirectional digital radio link between two endpoints is established using standard WiFi hardware and a custom protocol. DroneBridge is optimized for use in UAV applications and is a complete system. It is intended be a real alternative to other similar systems, such as DJI Lightbridge or OcuSync.

  • telescope-fzf-native.nvim

    FZF sorter for telescope written in c

  • raddebugger

    A native, user-mode, multi-process, graphical debugger.

  • xemu

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

  • zap

    blazingly fast backends in zig (by zigzap)

  • WCDB

    WCDB is a cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat.

  • ClassiCube

    Custom Minecraft Classic / ClassiCube client written in C from scratch (formerly ClassicalSharp in C#)

  • dune3d

    3D CAD application

  • blis

    BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework

  • pwru

    Packet, where are you? -- eBPF-based Linux kernel networking debugger

  • IoTGoat

    IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.

  • 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)

  • phoenix

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

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 94.9%
2 Friend 88.8%
3 xess 18.9%
4 unikraft 17.2%
5 fastfetch 13.2%
6 scx 12.9%
7 hypopg 12.5%
8 esp-drone 8.4%
9 rsync 7.7%
10 Windows-Research-Kernel-WRK- 7.5%
11 pgvector 7.0%
12 lantern 6.9%
13 immortalwrt 6.8%
14 firedancer 6.7%
15 avrdude 6.5%
16 quickjs 6.4%
17 os 6.4%
18 beyla 6.3%
19 foldseek 6.0%
20 libui-ng 5.9%
21 pg_hint_plan 5.8%
22 Prusa-Firmware-Buddy 5.6%
23 libsql 5.6%
24 alaz 5.5%
25 xtouch 5.4%
26 modern-embedded-programming-course 5.4%
27 mayhem-firmware 5.3%
28 zrythm 5.2%
29 pygame-ce 5.0%
30 qmk_firmware 5.0%
31 rknpu2 5.0%
32 gtkwave 4.9%
33 webui 4.8%
34 JDSP4Linux 4.8%
35 xv6-riscv 4.7%
36 T-Display-S3 4.7%
37 lwip 4.7%
38 DroneBridge 4.7%
39 telescope-fzf-native.nvim 4.7%
40 raddebugger 4.6%
41 xemu 4.6%
42 zap 4.6%
43 WCDB 4.5%
44 ClassiCube 4.5%
45 dune3d 4.4%
46 blis 4.2%
47 pwru 4.2%
48 IoTGoat 4.2%
49 STC 4.1%
50 phoenix 4.1%