Top 10 C c89 Projects

nuklear

62 8,515 8.3 C

A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library (by Immediate-Mode-UI)

Project mention: Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection | dev.to | 2024-04-17

Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.

w2c2

9 668 8.6 C

Translates WebAssembly modules to portable C

Project mention: Build your own WebAssembly Compiler | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-03

For AOT, the simplest approach, that actually produces the fastest native code, is to naively translate WASM opcodes to C.
This is for example what W2C2 does: https://github.com/turbolent/w2c2

InfluxDB

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Z80

2 393 9.2 C

Highly portable Zilog Z80 CPU emulator written in ANSI C
uriparser

1 311 5.1 C

:hocho: Strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing and handling library written in C89; moved from SourceForge to GitHub
smtp-client

1 92 0.0 C

SMTP Client Library in C
RGFW

4 71 9.6 C

A multi-platform single-header very simple-to-use framework library for creating GUI Libraries or simple GUI programs.

Project mention: RGFW: Simple, multi-platform single-header C framework for GUI library, programs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

json-build

2 33 0.0 C

Tiny, zero-allocation JSON serializer written in ANSI C
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
micro-AES

1 22 3.5 C

A minimalist implementation of AES algorithms in C
treedude

3 10 0.8 C

Clone of the mini-game from Superhot (by n-ivkovic)
tatl

1 2 4.9 C

🗣 Tiny Test Framework for C89

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).