+2,161 stars
from 39,596 · score 7.68
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2.micropython / micropython
MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
+628 stars
from 21,552 · score 6.44
3.libuv / libuv
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
- asynchronous
- io
- networking
- unix
- windows
- velociraptors
- +2 more
+627 stars
from 26,675 · score 6.44
4.lua / lua
A copy of the Lua development repository, as seen by the Lua team. Mirrored irregularly. All communication should be through the Lua mailing list https://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
+574 stars
from 9,845 · score 6.35
5.bellard / quickjs
Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.
+536 stars
from 10,560 · score 6.29
6.bellard / mquickjs
Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine
+486 stars
from 5,746 · score 6.19
+460 stars
from 10,129 · score 6.13
+297 stars
from 3,017 · score 5.70
+228 stars
from 13,962 · score 5.43
10.wasm3 / wasm3
🚀 A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime
- wasm
- webassembly
- embedded
- iot
- scripting
- edge-computing
- +7 more
+207 stars
from 7,869 · score 5.34
11.Tencent / xLua
xLua is a lua programming solution for C# ( Unity, .Net, Mono) , it supports android, ios, windows, linux, osx, etc.
+200 stars
from 10,021 · score 5.30
+174 stars
from 10,650 · score 5.16
13.hellobertrand / zxc
Lossless compression C library built for ultra-fast decode. Faster than LZ4 (+35% to 105%+; best on ARM64), at a better ratio. Official Rust, Python, Node.js, Go and WASM bindings. Write-once/read-many, with optional seekable archives for O(1) random access.
- arm64
- c
- compression
- lz4
- high-performance
- compression-library
- +9 more
+167 stars
from 357 · score 5.12
14.ashvardanian / StringZilla
Up to 100x faster strings for C, C++, CUDA, Python, Rust, Swift, JS, & Go, leveraging NEON, AVX2, AVX-512, SVE, GPGPU, & SWAR to accelerate search, hashing, sorting, edit distances, sketches, and memory ops 🦖
+161 stars
from 3,422 · score 5.09
+156 stars
from 11,826 · score 5.06
+135 stars
from 3,286 · score 4.91
17.ithewei / libhv
🔥 比libevent/libuv/asio更易用的网络库。A c/c++ network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT/Redis client/server.
- https
- http-client
- http-server
- websocket
- websocket-client
- websocket-server
- +10 more
+125 stars
from 7,447 · score 4.84
18.bdwgc / bdwgc
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (bdwgc, also known as bdw-gc, boehm-gc, libgc)
- garbage-collection
- memory-management
- memory-leak-detection
- c
- cpp
- c-plus-plus
- +8 more
+120 stars
from 3,436 · score 4.80
19.gbdk-2020 / gbdk-2020
An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.
- gameboy
- sdcc
- gbdk
+115 stars
from 2,206 · score 4.75
20.ashvardanian / NumKong
SIMD-accelerated distances, dot products, matrix ops, geospatial & geometric kernels for 16 numeric types — from 6-bit floats to 64-bit complex — across x86, Arm, RISC-V, and WASM, with bindings for Python, Rust, C, C++, Swift, JS, and Go 📐
+107 stars
from 1,798 · score 4.68
21.zserge / jsmn
Jsmn is a world fastest JSON parser/tokenizer. This is the official repo replacing the old one at Bitbucket
- json-data
- json-string
- parsing
+102 stars
from 4,107 · score 4.63
22.pocketpy / pocketpy
Portable Python 3.x Interpreter in Modern C
- header-only
- interpreter
- language
- python
- programming-language
- scripting-language
- +3 more
+92 stars
from 2,042 · score 4.53
23.a0rtega / pafishArchived
Pafish is a testing tool that uses different techniques to detect virtual machines and malware analysis environments in the same way that malware families do
- malware
- reverse-engineering
- virtual-machine
- malware-families
- analysis-environments
- sandbox
- +3 more
+78 stars
from 3,867 · score 4.37
+70 stars
from 6,358 · score 4.26
25.codeplea / tinyexpr
tiny recursive descent expression parser, compiler, and evaluation engine for math expressions
+66 stars
from 1,873 · score 4.20
26.h2o / picohttpparser
tiny HTTP parser written in C (used in HTTP::Parser::XS et al.)
+63 stars
from 2,050 · score 4.16
+59 stars
from 1,077 · score 4.09
28.jerryscript-project / jerryscript
Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
- javascript-engine
- javascript
- jerryscript
- internet-of-things
- iot
- runtime
+55 stars
from 7,362 · score 4.03
29.pikasTech / PikaPython
An ultra-lightweight Python interpreter that runs with only 4KB of RAM, zero dependencies. It is ready to use out of the box without any configuration required and easy to extend with C. Similar project: MicroPython, JerryScript.
- python
- micropython
- mcu
- iot
- language
- microcontroller
- +7 more
+50 stars
from 1,712 · score 3.93
30.pganalyze / libpg_query
C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment
+47 stars
from 1,446 · score 3.87
31.metacall / core
MetaCall: The ultimate polyglot programming experience.
- metacall
- function-mesh
- programming-language
- inter-language
- ffi
- polyglot
- +12 more
+46 stars
from 1,784 · score 3.85
32.ring-lang / ring
A simple, lightweight, flexible, embeddable, portable and multi-paradigm dynamic programming language for developing applications, tools, and domain-specific languages
- programming-language
- compiler
- virtual-machine
- ring
- language
- ring-programming-language
- +14 more
+45 stars
from 1,425 · score 3.83
+43 stars
from 5,107 · score 3.78
34.kolemannix / ffc.h
Single-header c99 accelerated float/double parsing. Port of the fast_float library.
+40 stars
from 184 · score 3.71
+38 stars
from 1,544 · score 3.66
+38 stars
from 1,194 · score 3.66
+33 stars
from 1,444 · score 3.53
38.jakogut / tinyvm
TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.
+30 stars
from 3,300 · score 3.43
39.liquidaty / zsv
zsv+lib: tabular data swiss-army knife CLI + world's fastest (simd) CSV parser
+29 stars
from 386 · score 3.40
+28 stars
from 815 · score 3.37
41.johnxnguyen / Down
Blazing fast Markdown / CommonMark rendering in Swift, built upon cmark.
+24 stars
from 2,512 · score 3.22
+22 stars
from 6,414 · score 3.14
+22 stars
from 1,724 · score 3.14
44.pantoniou / libfyaml
Fully feature complete YAML parser and emitter, supporting the latest YAML spec and passing the full YAML testsuite.
+19 stars
from 328 · score 3.00
45.libconfuse / libconfuse
Small configuration file parser library for C.
- config
- configuration-files
- c
- conf
- config-file
- config-parser
- +6 more
+18 stars
from 506 · score 2.94
+17 stars
from 1,063 · score 2.89
47.ppomes / myanon
A mysqldump anonymizer
- mysqldump
- anonymizer
- database-anonymizer
- rgpd
- anonymization
- mysql
- +12 more
+17 stars
from 118 · score 2.89
+16 stars
from 5,062 · score 2.83
49.howerj / dbcc
CAN DBC to C (and CSV, JSON and XML) compiler using the mpc parser combinator library
- dbc
- c
- misra
- automotive
- code-generation
- code-generator
- +1 more
+16 stars
from 444 · score 2.83
50.binji / binjgb
Gameboy emulator implemented in C, that also runs in the browser
- emulator
- gameboy
- gb-emulator
- gameboy-emulator
- webassembly
- wasm
+14 stars
from 599 · score 2.71
51.cesanta / frozen
JSON parser and generator for C/C++ with scanf/printf like interface. Targeting embedded systems.
+11 stars
from 765 · score 2.48
52.json-parser / json-parser
Very low footprint DOM-style JSON parser written in portable ANSI C
+10 stars
from 1,330 · score 2.40
53.Gwion / Gwion
:musical_note: strongly-timed musical programming language
- language
- composition
- programming-language
- synthesis
- sound
- real-time
- +9 more
+9 stars
from 573 · score 2.30
+9 stars
from 150 · score 2.30
55.katef / libfsm
DFA regular expression library & friends
- fsm
- regex
- lexer-generator
- regexp
- regexes
- regex-validator
- +13 more
+8 stars
from 978 · score 2.20
56.Is-Daouda / is-Engine
C++, SDL 2 and SFML game engine that allows to create games on Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), Mobile and PC.
- sfml
- game-engine
- android
- android-studio
- box-2d
- visual-studio-code
- +14 more
+8 stars
from 227 · score 2.20
+7 stars
from 1,513 · score 2.08
58.serpapi / nokolexbor
High-performance HTML5 parser for Ruby based on Lexbor, with support for both CSS selectors and XPath.
- c-extension
- css
- html5
- parser
- ruby
- web-scraping
- +2 more
+7 stars
from 408 · score 2.08
+7 stars
from 130 · score 2.08
60.wernsey / chip8
A CHIP-8 interpreter, assembler and disassembler in C
- chip8
- chip-8
- chip8-emulator
- emulator
- sdl
- disassembler
+7 stars
from 123 · score 2.08
61.rubinius / rubinius
The Rubinius Language Platform
+5 stars
from 3,089 · score 1.79
+5 stars
from 135 · score 1.79
+5 stars
from 34 · score 1.79
64.jeroen / jsonlite
Simple JSON Parser and Generator for R
+4 stars
from 400 · score 1.61
65.instead-hub / instead
INSTEAD - Simple Text Adventure Interpreter
- interactive-fiction
- lua
- game-engine
- quests
+4 stars
from 254 · score 1.61
66.Neopallium / llvm-lua
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/llvm-lua
+4 stars
from 160 · score 1.61
+3 stars
from 108 · score 1.39
68.artyom-poptsov / guile-ssh
Guile-SSH is a library that provides access to the SSH protocol for GNU Guile programs.
+3 stars
from 73 · score 1.39
69.floooh / sokol-d
D bindings for the sokol headers (https://github.com/floooh/sokol)
- bindings
- d
- dlang
- sokol
- cross-platform
- emscripten
- +1 more
+3 stars
from 26 · score 1.39
+2 stars
from 68 · score 1.10
71.arturania / cspice
NASA/JPL SPICE Toolkit for C – patched for cross-platform compatibility
- astronomy
- astronomical-algorithms
- celestial-mechanics
- nasa
- ephemeris-calculations
- cross-platform
- +9 more
+2 stars
from 33 · score 1.10
+1 stars
from 113 · score 0.69
73.gonutz / prototype
Simple 2D game prototyping framework targetting Windows, Mac, Linux, WASM.
+1 stars
from 108 · score 0.69