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DosX-dev/obfus.h

Macro-header for compile-time C obfuscation (tcc, win x86/x64)

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #compile-time #confuse #ctf #easy-to-use #education

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-12
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

1,840

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 275 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 4 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 49 open

1,829

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 6,746 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Vexu/arocc

A modern fully featured C compiler.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#c #compiler #zig

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-19
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 47 open

1,798

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 2,204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vergoh/vnstat

vnStat - a network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #network-traffic-monitor #traffic #vnstat

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-24
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 8 open

1,767

stars

Forks: 139
Commits: 1,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter

A C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

Stack

C CMake Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#c #libxlsxwriter #spreadsheet #xlsx #xlsx-files #xlsxwriter

Updated: 2026-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-08
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 20 open

1,754

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 1,019 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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leo-arch/clifm

💾 The shell-like, command-line terminal file manager

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#autosuggestion #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #console

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-19
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 26 open

1,710

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 10,370 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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taisei-project/taisei

A free and open-source Touhou Project fangame

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #danmaku #game #glsl #opengl #sdl

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-12
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 33 open

1,616

stars

Forks: 130
Commits: 4,723 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

angband/angband

A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#angband #c #game #roguelike

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-23
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 222 open

1,554

stars

Forks: 389
Commits: 10,569 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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celluloid-player/celluloid

A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#audio-player #c #celluloid #gnome-mpv #gtk #gtk4

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-30
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 285 open

1,444

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 1,895 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sist2app/sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool

Stack

C Vite Vue CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #sqlite #vuejs

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-28
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

1,297

stars

Forks: 78
Commits: 1,008 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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schweikert/fping

High performance ping tool

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd-license #c #fping #icmp #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-12-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

1,225

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pydata/bottleneck

Fast NumPy array functions written in C

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#c #c-extension #fast #numpy #python

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 60 open

1,181

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 1,436 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cxong/cdogs-sdl

Classic overhead run-and-gun game

Stack

C CMake Conan Poetry

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-game #c #game #games #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-04-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 120 open

1,080

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 4,443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skx/sysadmin-util

Tools for Linux/Unix sysadmins.

Archived

Stack

Perl

GitHub topics

#bash #c #perl #sysadmin #utilities

Updated: 2020-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-14
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

1,003

stars

Forks: 112
Commits: 142 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PQClean/PQClean

Clean, portable, tested implementations of post-quantum cryptography

Archived

Stack

C pytest pip

GitHub topics

#c #cryptography #implementations #post-quantum #post-quantum-cryptography #pqc

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-11
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 42 open

953

stars

Forks: 193
Commits: 1,408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MidnightCommander/mc

Midnight Commander's repository

Stack

GitHub topics

#c #console #file-manager #midnight-commander #terminal-based

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 685 open

948

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 16,990 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alexpovel/srgn

A grep-like tool which understands source code syntax and allows for manipulation in addition to search

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#abstract-syntax-tree #c #clang #cli #csharp #go

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-04-30
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

907

stars

Forks: 10
Commits: 799 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CCExtractor/ccextractor

CCExtractor - Official version maintained by the core team

Stack

C Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #cea-608 #cea-708 #dvb #hacktoberfest #hacktoberfest2021

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-12
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 33 open

897

stars

Forks: 584
Commits: 3,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hfiref0x/UPGDSED

Universal PatchGuard and Driver Signature Enforcement Disable

Archived

Stack

C .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#abandonware #bcd #c #dse #kpp #patchguard

Updated: 2019-03-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-24
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

874

stars

Forks: 263
Commits: 29 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ged/ruby-pg

A PostgreSQL client library for Ruby

Stack

C Bundler .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c #client #database #postgresql #rdbms #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

870

stars

Forks: 195
Commits: 2,385 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nspire-emus/firebird

Multi-platform emulator of TI Nspire calculators

Stack

C++ Android Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #arm #c #calculator #cpp #emulator

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 87 open

840

stars

Forks: 111
Commits: 1,265 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

punesemu/puNES

Qt-based Nintendo Entertaiment System emulator and NSF/NSF2/NSFe Music Player (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows)

Stack

C Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #c #c-plus-plus #clang #d3d9 #emulation

Updated: 2025-12-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 59 open

817

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 2,391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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intel/libva

Libva is an implementation for VA-API (Video Acceleration API)

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #va-api #video-api #video-decoding #video-processing #video-recording

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-06-19
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 223 open

773

stars

Forks: 313
Commits: 1,951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bradharding/doomretro

The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#boom #c #doom #doom2 #fps #free-software

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-21
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 93 open

766

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 20,983 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mellowcandle/bitwise

Terminal based bit manipulator in ncurses

Stack

GitHub topics

#bitwise #bitwise-operation #c #curses #linux #terminal-app

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-07
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 13 open

717

stars

Forks: 29
Commits: 264 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ruby2d/ruby2d

🎨 The Ruby 2D gem

AI dev

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#2d #c #graphics #opengl #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

694

stars

Forks: 76
Commits: 379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

brackeen/glfm

OpenGL ES and input for iOS, tvOS, Android, and WebGL

Stack

C CMake

GitHub topics

#android #c #emscripten #ios #opengles #tvos

Updated: 2025-05-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-04-21
History: 4 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 17 open

620

stars

Forks: 81
Commits: 574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

eggheads/eggdrop

The Eggdrop IRC Bot

Stack

C pytest uv

GitHub topics

#bot #c #eggdrop #hacktoberfest #irc #python

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-06-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 255 open

580

stars

Forks: 100
Commits: 3,827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

ngircd/ngircd

Free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server

Stack

GitHub topics

#bsd #c #chat #daemon #internet-relay-chat #irc

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-12-11
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 32 open

574

stars

Forks: 83
Commits: 3,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cfengine/core

CFEngine Community

Stack

C .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#automation #c #cfengine #configuration-management #infrastructure-as-code

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-01-04
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

533

stars

Forks: 201
Commits: 19,167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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