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24 alternatives to Muon, a meson implementation written in C

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Muon, a meson implementation written in C launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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A hash array-mapped trie implementation in C▲171
Long-simmering side project that is finally ready to see the light. HAMTs are a cool persistent data structure and implementing one has been a lot of fun. Beyond the code, there is likely some value in the extensive and largely complete implementation docs; basic benchmarks are linked in the README, too. Kind of aiming to be "the libavl for HAMTs". That is obviously a high and aspirational bar but a distinct possibility if it stirs up a little interest and/or contribution. Anyways, it's time for this to go out, collect feedback and maybe even some use outside of toy projects. Let me…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
2
Jsong: faster than light streaming JSON parser and writer in C▲9
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
Openemacs – a tiny emacs clone, ≤ 1024 LOC (C), based on kilo (BSD)▲8
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
4JA
jq, a lightweight commandline JSON processor▲5
2012 · stedolan.github.com · its alternatives →
5
A Golang library to build Turing machine▲6
2019 · made2591.github.io · its alternatives →
6
Yet another C SPDY implementation▲5
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
A Lock- and wait-free hashtable (and an array too), written in C▲24
📶 A lock- and wait-free hashtable (and an array too) - mulle-concurrent/mulle-concurrent
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight JSON Parser without memory allocation in ~250 LOC▲9
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
9BJ
Bitwise JSON Parser written in C▲6
2014 · web.cs.dal.ca · its alternatives →
10AA
Awl, a toy Lisp language written in C and transpiled to JavaScript▲8
2014 · skepsi.me · its alternatives →
11AS
A Super Simple JSON CMS▲8
2018 · medium.com · its alternatives →
12CA
Crsh – A JavaScript based command line shell▲9
2020 · crwi.uk · its alternatives →
13
Intro to x86 Assembly Language [video]▲7
2017 · youtube.com · its alternatives →
14
A new Bluebook implementation of the Smalltalk-80 VM▲11
A compiler and IDE for the Luon programming language - a liaison beween Lua and Oberon+ - targeting LuaJIT - Luon/testcases/Smalltalk80 at master · rochus-keller/Luon
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
15AC
A CPython Library for Runtime Bytecode Transformations▲5
2016 · codetransformer.readthedocs.org · its alternatives →
16PA
Philip2 – an Elm-to-OCaml compiler▲8
2019 · medium.com · its alternatives →
17CA
Choral, a Java-compatible language for type-safe multiparty protocols▲7
2020 · choral-lang.org · its alternatives →
18IA
Idio, a Programmable Shell▲6
2021 · idio-lang.org · its alternatives →
19
JsonTree, a tool for turning JSON data into a collapsible html tree▲9
A lightweight vanilla Javascript micro-library for making collapsible trees with JSON - MaxLeiter/jsonTree
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
20TC
The C++ Iceberg▲7
2022 · fouronnes.github.io · its alternatives →
21
X – A programming language with switchable memory modes▲5
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
Low-Level Programming▲5
C, Assembly, and Program Execution on Intel® 64 Architecture
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23LP
Literate Programming Implementation of the Promises/A+ Standard▲6
2015 · thriqon.github.io · its alternatives →
24IW
I wrote a scheme interpreter in C▲7
2019 · rain-1.github.io · its alternatives →

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