Top C GitHub Repositories & Open Source Projects (2026)
Top open source software built primarily with C, ranked by star growth and community adoption.
An embeddable fulltext search engine. Groonga is the successor project to Senna.
Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more
System profiler and benchmark tool for Linux systems
Cone Programming Language
Network Block Device
The community repository for the Draw Things app.
A cross-platform custom NOR firmware loader and custom IPSW generator for the iPhone
Tox Reference implementation for Android
Python/JavaScript bridge module, making use of Mozilla's spidermonkey JavaScript implementation.
Short read de novo assembler using de Bruijn graphs, as published in: D.R. Zerbino and E. Birney. 2008. Velvet: algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs. Genome Research, 18: 821-829