Trending C Projects

Top 50 Trending C Projects

1. publications

   1 619 42.5%

   Publications from Calif (by califio)

   

2. codebase-memory-mcp

   2 3,326 40.9%

   High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 159 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

   

3. AxxSolder

   3 1,536 30.5%

   STM32 Based soldering station for JBC cartridges, 9-24 VDC and USB-PD power

   

4. ProxyBridge

   4 4,891 26.3%

   Proxifier Alternative to redirect any Windows/MacOS/Linux TCP and UDP traffic to HTTP/Socks5 proxy

   

5. crosspoint-reader

   5 5,059 24.0%

   Firmware for the Xteink X3 and X4 e-paper display readers

   

6. egos-2000

   6 3,169 20.2%

   Envision a future where everyone can read all the code of an educational operating system.

   

7. amy

   7 608 17.8%

   AMY - A high-performance fixed-point Music synthesizer librarY for microcontrollers

   

8. esp-drone

   8 1,879 16.9%

   Mini Drone/Quadcopter Firmware for ESP32 and ESP32-S Series SoCs.

   

9. lopaka

   9 1,504 14.5%

   Lopaka - Stunning graphics for embedded systems displays

   

10. mango

    10 3,036 13.6%

    Practical and Powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)

    

11. kmscon

    11 792 12.9%

    Linux KMS/DRM based virtual Console Emulator

    

12. diy-esp32-epub-reader

    12 800 12.0%

    An ESP32 e-reader

    

13. PebbleOS

    13 1,112 11.8%

    

14. lispe

    14 590 10.7%

    An implementation of a full fledged Lisp interpreter with Data Structure, Pattern Programming and High level Functions with Lazy Evaluation à la Haskell.

    

15. MeshCore

    15 3,037 10.6%

    A new lightweight, hybrid routing mesh protocol for packet radios

    

16. VibeOS

    16 1,322 10.4%

    A completely vibecoded operating system targeting Aarch64

    

17. md4c

    17 1,358 10.2%

    C Markdown parser. Fast. SAX-like interface. Compliant to CommonMark specification.

    

18. pragtical

    18 668 10.2%

    The practical and pragmatic code editor.

    

19. esp32-llm

    19 536 10.1%

    Running a LLM on the ESP32

    

20. picolm

    20 1,643 8.6%

    Run a 1-billion parameter LLM on a $10 board with 256MB RAM

    

21. wican-fw

    21 664 8.6%

    

22. scroll

    22 521 8.4%

    i3-compatible Wayland compositor (sway) with a PaperWM layout like niri or hyprscroller (by dawsers)

    

23. tmc

    23 837 8.2%

    Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (USA/JP/EU)

    

24. bubblewrap

    24 7,504 8.2%

    Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

    

25. sqlite-vector

    25 953 7.9%

    SQLite-Vector is a cross-platform, ultra-efficient SQLite extension that brings vector search capabilities to your embedded database.

    

26. quickjs

    26 3,208 7.9%

    QuickJS, the Next Generation: a mighty JavaScript engine (by quickjs-ng)

    

27. silent-hill-decomp

    27 708 7.8%

    An in-progress decompilation of the 1.1 US release of Silent Hill on the Playstation 1.

    

28. TaskExplorer

    28 3,618 7.6%

    Power full Task Manager

    

29. swc

    29 737 7.6%

    a library for making a simple Wayland compositor (by michaelforney)

    

30. wl-kbptr

    30 628 7.5%

    Control the mouse pointer with the keyboard on Wayland.

    

31. dtach

    31 711 7.3%

    A simple program that emulates the detach feature of screen

    

32. rsync

    32 4,741 7.3%

    An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

    

33. qwen-asr

    33 557 7.2%

    C inference for Qwen3-ASR 0.6b and 1.7b transcriptions models

    

34. mc

    34 884 7.0%

    Midnight Commander's repository (by MidnightCommander)

    

35. tensor.h

    35 1,457 6.9%

    creating a tiny tensor library in raw C

    

36. pico-fido

    36 1,234 6.7%

    FIDO Passkey for Raspberry Pico and ESP32

    

37. t2sde

    37 648 6.6%

    T2 SDE Linux

    

38. microui

    38 5,866 6.6%

    A tiny immediate-mode UI library

    

39. tiny386

    39 577 6.4%

    tiny 386 PC emulator; running win9x on esp32

    

40. NTSC-CRT

    40 562 6.4%

    NTSC encoding/decoding in C89 using only integers and fixed point math. Supports NES decoding. Can be used as an image filter for games or real-time applications.

    

41. dsvpn

    41 5,687 6.4%

    A Dead Simple VPN.

    

42. STREAM

    42 500 6.4%

    STREAM benchmark

    

43. ghostling

    43 1,027 6.3%

    A minimum viable terminal emulator built on top of the libghostty C API. Ex minimo, infinita nascuntur. 👻🐣

    

44. microsocks

    44 2,091 6.3%

    tiny, portable SOCKS5 server with very moderate resource usage

    

45. moonshine

    45 8,373 6.3%

    Very low latency speech to text, intent recognition, and text to speech, for building voice agents and interfaces

    

46. VxKex-NEXT

    46 1,100 6.2%

    Windows 7 API Extensions

    

47. finit

    47 811 6.2%

    Fast init for Linux. Cookies included

    

48. systeminformer

    48 14,889 6.1%

    A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com

    

49. virtualbox

    49 1,220 6.1%

    Source code for Oracle VirtualBox

    

50. sm64coopdx

    50 1,211 6.0%

    An official continuation of https://github.com/djoslin0/sm64ex-coop on sm64coopdx for the enhancements and progress it already has.

    

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