C
Tracked open-source repos with C as the primary language, sorted by stars.
- #1linux@torvalds
Linux kernel source tree
★ 244,743+1,197Star change over the last 7 days - #2scrcpy@Genymobile
Display and control your Android device
★ 148,400+400Star change over the last 7 days - #3PowerToys@microsoft
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows
★ 138,169+250Star change over the last 7 days - #4Ventoy@ventoy
A new bootable USB solution.
★ 78,976+125Star change over the last 7 days - #5redis@redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure server, and document and vector query engine.
★ 76,129+61Star change over the last 7 days - #6obs-studio@obsproject
OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
★ 75,533+278Star change over the last 7 days - #7codegraph@colbymchenry
Pre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — fewer tokens, fewer tool calls, 100% local
★ 68,406+935Star change over the last 7 days - #8FFmpeg@FFmpeg
Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
★ 63,711+227Star change over the last 7 days - #9git@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.
★ 62,834+143Star change over the last 7 days - #10tmux@tmux
tmux source code
★ 48,872+128Star change over the last 7 days - #11curl@curl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, MQTTS, POP3, POP3S, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
★ 42,702+47Star change over the last 7 days - #12codebase-memory-mcp@DeusData
High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.
★ 40,914+1,188Star change over the last 7 days - #13php-src@php
The PHP Interpreter
★ 40,318+15Star change over the last 7 days - #14rufus@pbatard
The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
★ 37,447+70Star change over the last 7 days - #15mpv@mpv-player
🎥 Command line media player
★ 36,708+101Star change over the last 7 days - #16jq@jqlang
Command-line JSON processor
★ 35,495+18Star change over the last 7 days - #17stb@nothings
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
★ 34,522+69Star change over the last 7 days - #18raylib@raysan5
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
★ 34,484+71Star change over the last 7 days - #19ExplorerPatcher@valinet
This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
★ 33,734+58Star change over the last 7 days - #20ijkplayer@bilibili
Android/iOS video player based on FFmpeg n3.4, with MediaCodec, VideoToolbox support.
★ 33,200+4Star change over the last 7 days - #21WindTerm@kingToolbox
A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Tmux/Serial terminal.
★ 32,080+71Star change over the last 7 days - #22my-tv@lizongying
我的电视 电视直播软件,安装即可使用
★ 32,001-5Star change over the last 7 days - #23lede@coolsnowwolf
Lean's LEDE source
★ 31,585+13Star change over the last 7 days - #24nginx@nginx
The official NGINX Open Source repository.
★ 31,511+50Star change over the last 7 days - #25openssl@openssl
General purpose TLS and crypto library
★ 30,703+37Star change over the last 7 days - #26os-tutorial@cfenollosa
How to create an OS from scratch
★ 30,676+22Star change over the last 7 days - #27yabai@asmvik
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
★ 29,520+33Star change over the last 7 days - #28GoodbyeDPI@ValdikSS
GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
★ 28,592+12Star change over the last 7 days - #29openwrt@openwrt
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
★ 28,124+72Star change over the last 7 days - #30zstd@facebook
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
★ 27,640+49Star change over the last 7 days