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C Utility Libraries

Core libraries providing essential data structures, utilities, and abstractions for C applications.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

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35 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
libgit2
2,619
835
$12M
Libwebsockets
2,223
305
$16M
GLib
1,971
211
$24M
stb
1,566
332
$2.8M
EDK II
1,365
214
$67M
libevent
1,270
287
$2.6M
zlib
1,220
367
$1.4M
Hiredis
1,190
286
$365K
cJSON
896
153
$506K
JSON-C
768
228
$439K
Cosmopolitan Libc
711
253
$135M
libyang
683
105
$5.1M
c-ares
675
237
$1.7M
Sokol
647
142
$3.6M
Jansson
606
165
$561K
libpng
605
169
$2.5M
Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector
489
156
$1.7M
Azure C Shared Utility
381
39
$3.7M
libxkbcommon
376
121
$4.1M
uClibc-ng
329
104
$10M
CRoaring
314
94
$1.6M
GNU Portability Library (gnulib)
314
75
$34M
EPICS Base
270
40
$6.7M
AWS C Common
258
58
$1.9M
wasi-libc
251
113
$5.3M
cimgui
240
62
$4.5M
Check
218
70
$637K
LibJWT
203
58
$521K
AWS-C-IO
193
35
$1.6M
StringZilla
167
26
$1.9M
libpsl
143
47
$139K
Eclipse Zenoh C
141
31
$1M
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
0
0
$0
Pango
0
0
$0
Userspace RCU
0
0
$0
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