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raylib A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming 427 35,020

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VideoLAN Client (VLC) VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc 384 19,946

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pgvector Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres 191 23,300

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stb stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ 183 34,807

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Klib A standalone and lightweight C library 25 4,731

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cJSON Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C 21 13,026

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json-c https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/ 19 3,296

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gnulib upstream mirror 8 349

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AssetKit 🎨 Modern 2D/3D - Importer • Exporter • Util - Library, also known as (AssetIO) 7 215

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libev Full-featured high-performance event loop loosely modelled after libevent 5 1,786

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pg_repack Reorganize tables in PostgreSQL databases with minimal locks 4 2,315

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json 🔋 In-place lightweight JSON parser 4 28

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xml 🔋 In-place lightweight XML parser 4 18

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tm timers and timeline 3 48

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im 📷 image loader library for fast load images especially for rendering and image analysis (In Progress) 3 17

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defl fast & flexible deflate library 3 6

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zipy flexible and fast de-compress zip file or memory 3 5

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ds 🔗 Common Data Structures and Algorithms 2 62

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spatial common spatial computing 2 5

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Minizip-ng Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution. 1 1,506

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