Top 4 C garbage-collection Projects

bdwgc

14 2,768 9.7 C

The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)
arcadia

1 195 6.4 C

An implementation of the Arc programming language (by kimtg)
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.
lisp

2 65 4.9 C

A mini Lisp in 1k lines of C with garbage collector, explained. Includes over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, floating point, strings, closures with lexical scope, macros, proper tail recursion, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, a mark-sweep/compacting garbage collector and REPL. (by Robert-van-Engelen)
lisp-cheney

1 31 4.0 C

A mini Lisp in 1k lines of C with Cheney's copying garbage collector, explained. Includes over 40 built-in Lisp primitives, floating point, strings, closures with lexical scope, macros, proper tail recursion, exceptions, execution tracing, file loading, a copying garbage collector and REPL.

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).