What is the cleanest, most well written, best structured, open source C project you've seen?

• Redis

  318 64,821 9.7 C

  Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

  

I'd throw my hat in the ring for Redis

• mpv

  830 25,960 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

mpv and the xbps package manager both come to mind. I read them casually and found them very easy to grasp.

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• xbps

  19 749 6.5 C

  The X Binary Package System (XBPS)

  

mpv and the xbps package manager both come to mind. I read them casually and found them very easy to grasp.

• dukenukem3d

  3 151 10.0 C++

  Discontinued Duke Nukem 3D (1996) by 3D Realms Entertainment, Inc.

  

I second the Quake games as well. Despite their age, the OG releases are still pretty timeless (especially compared to some of their contemporaries). You can read more about them on Fabien Sanglard's blog. He's done code reviews of Quake 1-3, Doom 1-3, Duke3D, and more.

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