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Top 23 C programming-language Projects
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Lua
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
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AppSignal
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What happened to Wuffs? https://github.com/google/wuffs
A programming language specifically geared for file format libraries, including safety and performance
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checkedc
Checked C is an extension to C that lets programmers write C code with bounds checking and improved type-safety. The goal is to let people easily make their existing C code type-safe and eliminate entire classes of errors.
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SaaSHub
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Project mention: Pocketpy: Portable Python 3.x interpreter written in C11 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-21
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Project mention: Umka: A statically typed embeddable scripting language | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-06
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ring
A simple, lightweight, flexible, embeddable, portable and multi-paradigm dynamic programming language for developing applications, tools, and domain-specific languages (by ring-lang)
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Project mention: Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-05
The CPP does allow quite advanced metaprogramming, it's just so obtuse to use and requires insane hacks so almost nobody does. See one of my favorite projects https://github.com/hirrolot/metalang99
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wax
A tiny programming language that transpiles to C, C++, Java, TypeScript, Python, C#, Swift, Lua and WebAssembly 🚀
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Project mention: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-04
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SaaSHub
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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).
C programming-language discussion
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Memory-Safe WebP Decoding
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Log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua
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Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
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Pocketpy: Portable Python 3.x interpreter written in C11
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Red Programming Language: Static linking support
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F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel
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Arc v0.0.2-alpha – Release Notes
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Index
What are some of the best open-source programming-language projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Lua | 10,365 |
| 2 | wuffs | 4,847 |
| 3 | gravity | 4,577 |
| 4 | emojicode | 3,412 |
| 5 | checkedc | 3,263 |
| 6 | CreepyCodeCollection | 2,399 |
| 7 | nature | 2,256 |
| 8 | pocketpy | 2,133 |
| 9 | umka-lang | 2,113 |
| 10 | core | 1,821 |
| 11 | inform | 1,647 |
| 12 | pocketlang | 1,548 |
| 13 | ngs | 1,520 |
| 14 | ring | 1,466 |
| 15 | ravi | 1,250 |
| 16 | daScript | 1,186 |
| 17 | holyc-lang | 1,176 |
| 18 | metalang99 | 1,090 |
| 19 | wax | 855 |
| 20 | tcl | 841 |
| 21 | c2compiler | 840 |
| 22 | felix | 817 |
| 23 | cmajor | 755 |
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