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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.
Project mention: Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-21 -
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ponyc
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Project mention: Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-29I was randomly looking at examples and I think this is one showing that: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/blob/main/examples/under_p...
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Project mention: Show HN: Header-only GIF decoder in pure C – no malloc, easy to use | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-23
No allocations, reminds me of WUFFS, which also comes with a GIF decoder: https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/main/std/gif/decode_gif...
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Project mention: Emojicode – open-source, full-blown programming language consisting of emojis | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-28
A mobile app and/or mobile-friendly compiler playground would bridge the gap between this cool programming language and many potential users: https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/issues/194
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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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Thanks!
I think it's about alignment of the project and how you think.
Anyhow, I'm working on the user interface of Next Generation Shell now and I would like to encourage you to revisit the project once that is done.
Plan:
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Design
https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs/wiki/UI-Chain-Design
Tldr: interactive objects on the screen, each interaction results "interaction record" (structured data about what happened), semantic understanding of what's happening, record/replay facility.
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Project mention: Metalang99: Full-Blown Preprocessor Metaprogramming | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-30
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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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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
C programming-language related posts
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Zig's Lovely Syntax
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The Q Programming Language
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Show HN: Header-only GIF decoder in pure C – no malloc, easy to use
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Losing language features: some stories about disjoint unions
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Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]
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A programming language made for me
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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lua | 9,347 |
| 2 | ponyc | 5,930 |
| 3 | wuffs | 4,620 |
| 4 | gravity | 4,417 |
| 5 | emojicode | 3,372 |
| 6 | checkedc | 3,245 |
| 7 | CreepyCodeCollection | 2,392 |
| 8 | nature | 2,031 |
| 9 | pocketpy | 1,907 |
| 10 | core | 1,688 |
| 11 | pocketlang | 1,534 |
| 12 | ngs | 1,506 |
| 13 | ring | 1,349 |
| 14 | ravi | 1,225 |
| 15 | umka-lang | 1,219 |
| 16 | metalang99 | 965 |
| 17 | wax | 823 |
| 18 | felix | 816 |
| 19 | c2compiler | 791 |
| 20 | tcl | 740 |
| 21 | onyx | 646 |
| 22 | cmajor | 640 |
| 23 | holyc-lang | 632 |
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