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Top 10 C Perl Projects
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https://libera.chat is what Freenode turned into after Freenode imploded. Really great communities there - F/OSS-centric, yes, but there are good unofficial channels for cloud services, and even some proprietary software and services, like vscode, AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.
ZNC is an excellent way to keep history between your IRC sessions: https://github.com/znc/znc And WeeChat is an excellent companion to ZNC and libera.chat: https://github.com/weechat/weechat And IRC for Android is an excellent IRC client that also plays well with ZNC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercul... Cheers!
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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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website-meta-language
An old offline HTML preprocessor (which can be used for static site generation), written in Perl and C that is still maintained for legacy reasons, but probably not recommended for new sites.
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Main-line development of the NeAnt PDK and CommonCore files by Ne.app (https://go.ne-app.eu/nesystem) (by ne-app-open)
Project mention: Show HN: Validation SDK merges to Stable for NeAnt sources | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-08 -
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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PSA: Flatpaks are currently broken on Fedora. Here's a temporary solution.
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Website Meta Language is an offline HTML preprocessor, dating back to the 1990s
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Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Perl projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weechat | 3,375 |
| 2 | shc | 2,245 |
| 3 | intel-cmt-cat | 750 |
| 4 | gherkin | 402 |
| 5 | Daikon | 263 |
| 6 | zeroperl | 106 |
| 7 | website-meta-language | 14 |
| 8 | hashpling | 11 |
| 9 | src | 10 |
| 10 | SPVM-Sys | 3 |
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