Top 10 C developer-tool Projects

nnn

200 18,136 8.1 C

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Project mention: Directory navigation on Helix | /r/HelixEditor | 2023-12-06

If you want a file full browser experience choose nnn: https://github.com/jarun/nnn . If you have a desktop file for Helix you can use the Gnome Files program to make all your programming language files open in Helix.

pyroscope

5 9,380 9.8 C

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

Project mention: Grafana Pyroscope v1.0.0 Release | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-29

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.
ctags

33 6,257 9.7 C

A maintained ctags implementation

Project mention: If you owned a nvidia tesla a100, what would you do with it? | /r/LocalLLaMA | 2023-07-04

clifm

90 1,239 9.9 C

The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.

Project mention: Finally! Clifm has been ported to Solaris! | /r/solaris | 2023-09-13

bake

1 646 6.7 C

Bake, A build system for building, testing and running C & C++ projects (by SanderMertens)
bcal

12 618 4.4 C

:1234: Bits, bytes and address calculator
interrupt

1 446 9.0 C

A community for embedded software makers.
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.
ubxlib

2 268 9.6 C

Portable C libraries which provide APIs to build applications with u-blox products and services. Delivered as add-on to existing microcontroller and RTOS SDKs.
cdecl

12 72 9.9 C

Composing and deciphering C (or C++) declarations or casts, aka ‘‘gibberish.’’

Project mention: Career Retrospective | dev.to | 2024-02-01

In the mean time, I still enjoy hacking on various projects such as cdecl and writing my programming blog. Aside from computers, I enjoy gardening, cooking, and hope to do some travel.

bmptk

1 8 0.0 C

C/C++/assembler built environment for micro-controllers

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 2024-02-01.