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Top 7 C Application Projects
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unikraft
A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
I've been using unikraft (https://unikraft.org/) unikernels for a while and the startup times are quite impressive (easily sub-second for our Rust application).
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bef
Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data.
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Nerve
Run a real LLM, sentence embeddings and on-device learning in pure C - one header, zero dependencies. TinyLlama-1.1B on a 2017 laptop CPU; the same code as a 65 KB WebAssembly module in your browser. Deterministic, auditable, embeddable anywhere C compiles. (by fkkarakurt)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Application discussion
C Application related posts
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What Is GVisor?
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Unikraft: Ultra-Lightweight Virtual Machines
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KraftCloud
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Show HN: Bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams
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Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
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Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
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What Is a Unikernel?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Application projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | unikraft | 3,822 |
| 2 | ideviceinstaller | 1,444 |
| 3 | ESP32-OpenCV-Projects | 64 |
| 4 | bef | 58 |
| 5 | Nerve | 54 |
| 6 | gsequencer | 29 |
| 7 | Send | 26 |
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