Top 7 C Compiler Projects

minixfromscratch

15 1,182 1.4 C

Development and compilation setup for the book versions of MINIX (2.0.0 and 3.1.0) on QEMU

Project mention: Ask HN: High-quality resources for writing complex systems software? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-05

Open BSD software source.
UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads: Communication, Concurrency and Threads 2nd Edition by K Robbins and S. Robbins
minix from scrath [0]; linux from scratch[1];
[1] : https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
[0] : https://github.com/o-oconnell/minixfromscratch

libfsm

2 897 8.4 C

DFA regular expression library & friends
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

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.
never

1 401 5.8 C

Never: statically typed, embeddable functional programming language.
honey-potion

6 234 6.4 C

Writing eBPF programs with Elixir!

Project mention: Honey Potion: an eBPF backend for Elixir | /r/elixir | 2023-05-18

Hi all! We are working on an eBPF backend for Elixir. It's called Honey Potion. The project is under development, but it is possible to write some useful programs at this point. For instance, in this video, one of the guys involved explains how to write a program to count system calls.

pl0c

5 122 0.0 C

Self-hosting PL/0 to C compiler to teach basic compiler construction from a practical, hands-on perspective.
well

12 55 4.0 C

The Future of Assembly Language. https://wellang.github.io/well/
cparse

14 47 10.0 C

cparse is an LR(1) and LALR(1) parser generator (by jafarlihi)
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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). The latest post mention was on 2023-11-05.