C Runtime

Open-source C projects categorized as Runtime

Top 8 C Runtime Projects

  1. jerryscript

    Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.

    Project mention: State of JavaScript 2024 Results, GitHub Copilot Now Free, EPIC Developer Tools, and more | dev.to | 2024-12-22

    The State of JavaScript 2024 survey results GitHub Copilot is now Free Tailwind CSS 4 JerryScript 3.0 Transformers.js v3.2 Bun 1.1.39 & 1.1.40 pnpm Update ESLint v9.17.0

  2. Nutrient

    Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers. Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.

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  3. wasm-micro-runtime

    WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)

    Project mention: I Wrote a WebAssembly VM in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-03

    The person I replied to just said it is 266MB because it includes a compiler, and that obviously isn't true.

    https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime

    This says 4000 lines

    https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm

    What are we talking about here? There is obviously no reason a wasm jit has to be 266 MB

  4. crun

    A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

    Project mention: Crun – A fast and lightweight featured OCI runtime | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-05
  5. dart_native

    Write iOS&macOS&Android Code using Dart. This package liberates you from redundant glue code and low performance of Flutter Channel.

  6. scale

    A framework for building high-performance plugin systems into any application, powered by WebAssembly.

  7. StarlingMonkey

    The StarlingMonkey JS runtime

    Project mention: Chrome for Developers: Thorsten Hans talks with Thomas Steiner | dev.to | 2025-02-06

    This new SDK is built on top of Firefox browser’s SpiderMonkey engine, and the Bytecode Alliance’s StarlingMonkey runtime and ComponentizeJS WIT bindings generator.

  8. toywasm

    A WebAssembly interpreter written in C

    Project mention: Wasmi v0.32: WebAssembly interpreter is now faster than | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-28

    Thank you, that's a good summary of the article!

    Even faster startup times can be achieved by so-called in-place interpreters that do not even translate the Wasm binary at all and instead directly execute it without adjustments. Obviously this is slower at execution compared to re-writing interpreters.

    Examples for Wasm in-place interpreters are toywasm (https://github.com/yamt/toywasm) or WAMR's classic interpreter.

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. squire

    The medieval language held together by twine. (by sampersand)

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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Index

What are some of the best open-source Runtime projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 jerryscript 7,130
2 wasm-micro-runtime 5,151
3 crun 3,173
4 dart_native 951
5 scale 517
6 StarlingMonkey 134
7 toywasm 85
8 squire 60

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