RepoCurrent analysis · C · 30 days

C open-source momentum.

C projects earn attention over years, but adoption decisions depend on what maintainers and contributors are doing now. This board makes recent project movement visible without treating raw stars as a quality score.

Independent 30-day order among tracked projects, not GitHub Trending's original ranking.

See GitHub's original daily order Add a C repository

Ranked projects

6

Median momentum

71

Sampled commits

519

Active contributors

15

30-day leaderboard

Current movement, reasons attached.

Last source sync: 2026-10-21 02:26 UTC. Samples are capped and directional.

01
willfaust/madeira

Run x86-64 Windows PC games on jailed iOS via FEX-Emu + Wine + DXMT

2.6K stars · 100 sampled commits

Momentum79
Contributors3
Cadence1d
02
antirez/ds4

DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm

24K stars · 32 sampled commits

Momentum73
Contributors2
Cadence1d
03
justvugg/colibri

Run frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦

42.7K stars · 100 sampled commits

Momentum71
Contributors3
Cadence5d
04
colbymchenry/codegraph

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

74.5K stars · 100 sampled commits

Momentum66
Contributors2
Cadence12d
05
deusdata/codebase-memory-mcp

High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 162 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

46.8K stars · 100 sampled commits

Momentum62
Contributors1
Cadence8d
06
epicgames/raddebugger

A native, user-mode, multi-process, graphical debugger.

8.6K stars · 87 sampled commits

Momentum56
Contributors4
Cadence52d

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Research context

What this ranking is good for.

Use this ranking to discover active C repositories, build a research shortlist, and compare current execution before adopting a dependency.

Momentum is directional discovery data, not a security, compatibility, licensing, or production-readiness verdict.

Is this GitHub Trending's original C ranking?

No. This page sorts tracked repositories by RepoCurrent's independent 30-day momentum score. The homepage displays GitHub Trending's original daily order, with links to its weekly and monthly lists.

What makes a C repository trend on RepoCurrent?

The 30-day score combines sampled development activity, active contributors, issue-resolution health, and release cadence. Lifetime stars are shown as context but do not determine rank.

Is this a list of the best C repositories?

No. It is a directional shortlist of projects showing current movement. Technical fit, security, licensing, API stability, and production readiness require separate evaluation.

How often does this ranking update?

RepoCurrent refreshes its capped GitHub activity samples every two hours and records the source update time on each repository.