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 2026-07-30 · 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. 🐦21K ★▲ 1.2%/day259/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 queries36K ★▲ 1.1%/day387/d
3. 03colbymchenry/codegraphCPre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, and Hermes Agent — fewer toke63K ★▲ 0.4%/day261/d
4. 04antirez/ds4CDeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm19K ★▲ 0.2%/day43/d
5. 05openwrt/openwrtCThis 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 accept28K ★▲ 0.1%/day37/d
6. 06tmux/tmuxCtmux source code48K ★▲ 0.1%/day27/d
7. 07FFmpeg/FFmpegCMirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git63K ★▲ 0.1%/day33/d
8. 08torvalds/linuxCLinux kernel source tree241K ★▲ 0.1%/day124/d
9. 09Genymobile/scrcpyCDisplay and control your Android device147K ★▲ 66/day
10. 10obsproject/obs-studioCOBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording74K ★▲ 28/day
11. 11microsoft/PowerToysCMicrosoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that supercharge productivity and customization on Windows137K ★▲ 33/day