What are the best places to find open-source C libraries?

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Best places to find open-source C libraries	Price	Last Updated
-- GitHub.com	-	Jan 14, 2017
-- Notabug.org	-	Jan 10, 2020
-- fresh(code)	-	May 18, 2016
-- CPPReference list of open source C libraries	-	May 18, 2016

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GitHub.com

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Massive number of repositories

Github is home to the largest number of open source repositories on the internet. There's a very good chance that all libraries that can be found elsewhere are also hosted on GitHub. See More

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Many unfinished / unreleased projects

Many repositories are half finished, never made a release - or developer experiments. So there are many projects to sort through when selecting projects. See More

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Notabug.org

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fresh(code)

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Focus on Released Software

Projects are listed with released versions, making it clear that the authors are releasing work they intend others to build on top of (unlike random repositories on 3rd pary hosting). See More

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Not only C libraries

This site as a general open-source software catalog, which doesn't provide a way to filter C libraries. See More

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Comprehensive

Quite a comprehensive list of projects (over 1000 at time of writing). See More

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CPPReference list of open source C libraries

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Few Libraries Listed

While useful for general libraries, there are very few, making it less useful when looking for more spesific libraries. See More

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What are the best places to find open-source C libraries?

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GitHub.com

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Massive number of repositories

Many unfinished / unreleased projects

Notabug.org

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My Recommendation for Notabug.org

fresh(code)

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My Recommendation for fresh(code)

Focus on Released Software

Not only C libraries

Comprehensive

CPPReference list of open source C libraries

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My Recommendation for CPPReference list of open source C libraries

Few Libraries Listed

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