Where can I get some large C projects that are easy to follow if I have only a basic idea of C?

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  • freebsd-src

    The FreeBSD src tree publish-only repository. Experimenting with 'simple' pull requests....

  • It depends on what you consider "large": 1k, 10k, 100k+ lines of code? maybe more than a hundred .c files, maybe popularity, number of contributors... I say this because maybe the notion of "large" you have is not exactly the same as the others... As the LOC count increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand all the code and see how it all fits together. However, that doesn't stop you from being able to understand (and play around with) isolated points of the project. About suggestions, maybe FreeBSD's coreutils, Musl...

  • musl

    unofficial musl mirror git://git.musl-libc.org/musl (by ifduyue)

  • It depends on what you consider "large": 1k, 10k, 100k+ lines of code? maybe more than a hundred .c files, maybe popularity, number of contributors... I say this because maybe the notion of "large" you have is not exactly the same as the others... As the LOC count increases, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand all the code and see how it all fits together. However, that doesn't stop you from being able to understand (and play around with) isolated points of the project. About suggestions, maybe FreeBSD's coreutils, Musl...

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • I wrote an intermediate-sized project that solves word searches in C and C++ that you might find useful.

  • 2dwaveC

    2D wave simulation

  • Anyway, I also have a mini code https://github.com/harieamjari/2dwaveC/blob/main/2dwave06.c which produces https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oJje7rtSs2w&pp=sAQA if the program takes the same song and the frames were compiled with ffmpeg.

  • Quake

    Quake GPL Source Release

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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