RISING · C

The C repositories breaking out right now, ranked by relative momentum: daily growth against their own size, so real risers surface instead of the giants that merely add the most stars in absolute terms.

catalog of 2026-09-13 · velocity is a trailing pace, up to 7 days · the one history nobody else keeps

1. 01JustVugg/colibriCRun frontier MoE models on hardware you already own — pure C, zero deps, experts streamed from disk. Tiny engine, immense model. 🐦29K ★▲ 2.3%/day658/d
2. 02DeusData/codebase-memory-mcpCHigh-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 158 languages, sub-ms queries43K ★▲ 0.3%/day110/d
3. 03colbymchenry/codegraphCPre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes Agent — f71K ★▲ 0.2%/day128/d
4. 04torvalds/linuxCLinux kernel source tree248K ★▲ 0.1%/day241/d
5. 05Genymobile/scrcpyCDisplay and control your Android device149K ★▲ 0.1%/day77/d
6. 06obsproject/obs-studioCOBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording76K ★▲ 0.1%/day38/d
7. 07FFmpeg/FFmpegCMirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git64K ★▲ 26/day
8. 08microsoft/PowerToysCMicrosoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows139K ★▲ 25/day