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Genymobile/scrcpy

Display and control your Android device

Stack

C Android Gradle Meson

GitHub topics

#android #c #ffmpeg #libav #mirroring #recording

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-12
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,851 open

145,461

stars

Forks: 13,422
Commits: 3,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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neovim/neovim

Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

AI dev

Stack

Vim Script CMake

GitHub topics

#api #c #lua #neovim #nvim #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-31
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,910 open

100,864

stars

Forks: 6,944
Commits: 37,110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #directshow #facebook-live #ffmpeg #game-capture

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-01
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,114 open

73,569

stars

Forks: 9,391
Commits: 15,621 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

AI dev

Stack

C Cargo CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#c #hacktoberfest #shell

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

61,977

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Forks: 28,126
Commits: 81,471 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Stack

GitHub topics

#audio #c #ffmpeg #fft #hevc #hls

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-12-20
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

61,558

stars

Forks: 13,950
Commits: 125,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vim/vim

The official Vim repository

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Stack

Vim Script

GitHub topics

#c #cross-platform #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2004-06-13
History: 10 history points
License: Vim
Issues: 1,628 open

40,588

stars

Forks: 6,089
Commits: 24,030 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mpv-player/mpv

🎥 Command line media player

Stack

C Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#audio #c #ffmpeg #mplayer #mpv #multimedia

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2001-02-24
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,127 open

35,825

stars

Forks: 3,401
Commits: 55,292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

raysan5/raylib

A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#android #c #embedded #esp32 #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-24
History: 3 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 22 open

33,731

stars

Forks: 3,180
Commits: 9,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kovidgoyal/kitty

If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

AI dev

Stack

Python Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #go #golang #golang-application #kitty #kitty-terminal

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-14
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 10 open

33,699

stars

Forks: 1,405
Commits: 18,459 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

radareorg/radare2

UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset

AI dev

Stack

C Meson npm

GitHub topics

#binary-analysis #c #commandline #disassembler #forensics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-02-05
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 821 open

24,294

stars

Forks: 3,269
Commits: 36,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 4 open

21,692

stars

Forks: 808
Commits: 4,611 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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allinurl/goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

Stack

GitHub topics

#analytics #apache #c #caddy #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-06-11
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 457 open

20,706

stars

Forks: 1,187
Commits: 4,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

RPCS3/rpcs3

PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#assembly-language #c #cpp #emulation #emulator #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,047 open

19,046

stars

Forks: 2,325
Commits: 19,558 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

videolan/vlc

VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

Stack

C Cargo CMake Meson

GitHub topics

#c #framework #gplv2 #lgpl #multimedia #open-source

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 1999-08-08
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

18,849

stars

Forks: 5,991
Commits: 111,113 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

systemd/systemd

The systemd System and Service Manager

AI dev

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #init #linux #services #system #systemd

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3,345 open

16,491

stars

Forks: 4,585
Commits: 90,540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

davatorium/rofi

Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#application-launcher #c #dmenu #dmenu-replacement #i3 #linux

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-06-29
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 111 open

16,251

stars

Forks: 690
Commits: 4,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

python-pillow/Pillow

Python Imaging Library (fork)

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #cross-platform #image #image-processing #pil #pillow

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-31
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 131 open

13,659

stars

Forks: 2,462
Commits: 20,897 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jonas/tig

Text-mode interface for git

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #git #ncurses #tui

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-04-10
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 218 open

13,272

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 2,910 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

libvips/libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #gif #graphicsmagick #hdr #heic

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 80 open

11,471

stars

Forks: 783
Commits: 9,357 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear

A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #c89 #gui #header-only #imgui #multiplatform

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-03-03
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 315 open

11,248

stars

Forks: 677
Commits: 2,480 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

krallin/tini

A tiny but valid `init` for containers

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #docker #init #init-system #linux

Updated: 2025-05-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-22
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 45 open

11,164

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 244 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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pymumu/smartdns

A local DNS server to obtain the fastest website IP for the best Internet experience, support DoT, DoH, DoQ. 一个本地DNS服务器，获取最快的网站IP，获得最佳上网体验，支持DoH，DoT，DoQ。

Stack

C Cargo

GitHub topics

#c #dns #dns-over-https #dns-over-tls #dns-server #dns64

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 297 open

11,075

stars

Forks: 1,238
Commits: 1,158 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fogleman/Craft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders).

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#c #game #glsl #minecraft #multiplayer #opengl

Updated: 2024-04-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-09
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 128 open

11,059

stars

Forks: 1,437
Commits: 753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cython/cython

The most widely used Python to C compiler

Stack

Cython PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #cpp #cpython #cpython-extensions #cython

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-10-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,513 open

10,788

stars

Forks: 1,613
Commits: 20,452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cs01/gdbgui

Browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Add breakpoints, view the stack, visualize data structures, and more in C, C++, Go, Rust, and Fortran. Run gdbgui from the terminal and a new tab will open in your browser.

Stack

TypeScript Flask React Tailwind CSS Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#browser #c #c-plus-plus #debugger #debugger-visualizer #frontend

Updated: 2025-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-09-26
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 179 open

10,342

stars

Forks: 521
Commits: 438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

conan-io/conan

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #conan #cplusplus #cpp #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-01
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 561 open

9,434

stars

Forks: 1,120
Commits: 9,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

htop-dev/htop

htop - an interactive process viewer

AI dev

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #console #hacktoberfest #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 346 open

8,182

stars

Forks: 608
Commits: 3,849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Qiskit/qiskit

Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.

Stack

Python Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c #python #qiskit #quantum #quantum-circuit #quantum-computing

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,113 open

7,564

stars

Forks: 2,956
Commits: 10,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

arkime/arkime

Arkime is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system.

AI dev

Stack

C Express Svelte Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #javascript #network-monitoring #nsm #packet-capture

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-07-06
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 40 open

7,408

stars

Forks: 1,158
Commits: 6,605 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hishamhm/htop

htop is an interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. It aims to be a better 'top'.

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #console-application #freebsd #htop #linux

Updated: 2020-11-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-04
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 316 open

5,900

stars

Forks: 573
Commits: 1,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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