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Top 23 C Objective-C Projects
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ravynos
An open-source OS project that aims to provide source and binary compatibility with macOS® and a similar user experience.
Project mention: New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-20 -
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Provenance
iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started: https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |
Project mention: Provenance Emulator: Atari, Commodore, Game Boy and More | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-14 -
ZipArchive
ZipArchive is a simple utility class for zipping and unzipping files on iOS, macOS and tvOS.
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WinDiskWriter
🖥 Windows Bootable USB creator for macOS. 🛠 Patches Windows 11 to bypass TPM and Secure Boot requirements. 👾 UEFI & Legacy Support
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Themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
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Twitter Image Pipline
Twitter Image Pipeline is a robust and performant image loading and caching framework for iOS clients
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dart_native
Write iOS&macOS&Android Code using Dart. This package liberates you from redundant glue code and low performance of Flutter Channel.
DartNative
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Project mention: Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-03
I agree, Cucumber works really well with LLMs.
> I use a mix of Markdown and Gherkin
Gherkin also has a Markdown based syntax that is not well known:
https://github.com/cucumber/gherkin/blob/main/MARKDOWN_WITH_...
I prefer that to the 'verbose' original syntax. MDG also renders nicely in code forges.
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nvdialog
NvDialog is a C library that lets you create modal dialog boxes, file dialogs, notifications and other kinds of popups using the system's native API for user interfaces.
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Silicon
An alternative, purely C-focused wrapper to Apple's Cocoa API for OS X app development and basic iOS programming. Requires little to no Objective-C knowledge to use. (by EimaKve)
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nano-ycmd
Modded GNU Nano using ycmd code completion and IntelliSense. The ycmd code completion support for nano is found in the ymcd-code-completion branch.
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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).
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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 4)
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Modern Debian-based Window Maker distribution
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Last NeXT Computer Website
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macOS WinDiskWriter: Windows Bootable USB Creator – Bypass TPM and Secure Boot
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GNU/Darwin (2000)
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Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app
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Ravynos: BSD-based OS with an experience like and some compatibility with macOS
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Objective-C projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ravynos | 6,887 |
| 2 | Provenance | 6,349 |
| 3 | ZipArchive | 5,607 |
| 4 | WinDiskWriter | 4,609 |
| 5 | gravity | 4,553 |
| 6 | Themis | 1,971 |
| 7 | deadbeef | 1,955 |
| 8 | Twitter Image Pipline | 1,849 |
| 9 | AppSync | 1,387 |
| 10 | dart_native | 963 |
| 11 | iSCSIInitiator | 578 |
| 12 | libobjc2 | 500 |
| 13 | gherkin | 392 |
| 14 | headers | 381 |
| 15 | vger | 324 |
| 16 | OHMySQL | 238 |
| 17 | dstep | 217 |
| 18 | ReProvision-Reborn | 118 |
| 19 | nvdialog | 58 |
| 20 | Silicon | 57 |
| 21 | nano-ycmd | 39 |
| 22 | Send | 26 |
| 23 | OggDecoder | 14 |
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