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24 alternatives to Tigress – Diversifying Virtualizer/Obfuscator for C
Tigress is a diversifying virtualizer and obfuscator for C code that protects against reverse engineering and de-virtualization attacks. It supports full C99 language features and transforms source code into protected… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tigress – Diversifying Virtualizer/Obfuscator for C launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Langfuse▲771Open source tracing and analytics for LLM applications
2023 · langfuse.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · picheta.me · its alternatives →
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Brisk is an open-source C++ GUI framework with a declarative approach, offering powerful data bindings, GPU-accelerated graphics, and dynamic widget management. It supports macOS, Linux, Windows, and simplifies UI creation with modern paradigms and CSS-like layouts. Initially developed for a graphics-intensive project with a complex and dynamic GUI, the framework is currently under active development.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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"interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. Contribute to tekknolagi/carp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Single C file, no dynamic memory allocations, asynchronous design, pure C99 - ringtailsoftware/uvm32
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:racehorse: Extremely minimal vmm for linux written in C. Hopefully someday will spin linux-vm for you. - flouthoc/wiser
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental Python-to-C transpiler and domain specific language for embedded high-performance computing - zanellia/prometeo
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Embedding-based code duplication detector. Contribute to rafal-qa/slopo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We are happy to share Perforator – our internal cluster-wide profiler with great support for native languages and a built-in AutoFDO pipeline to simplify sPGO builds. Perforator allows you to profile most binaries without having to recompile or adjust the build process. We use it at Yandex to profile each pod inside a large cluster at modest speed (99Hz), collecting petabytes of profiles every day. There's a blog post about it at https://medium.com/yandex/yandexs-high-performance-profiler-.... Inspired by Google-Wide Profiling, we started continuous profiling…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is an evolving toolkit of capabilities helpful for analysing and reverse engineering legacy Cobol code. Currently, the following capabilities are available: - Program / Section-level flowchart generation based on AST (SVG or PNG) - Parse Tree generation (with export to JSON) - Control Flow Tree generation (with export to JSON) - Allows embedding code comments as comment nodes in the graph - The SMOJOL Interpreter (WIP) - Injecting AST and Control Flow into Neo4J - Injecting Cobol data layouts from Data Division into Neo4J (with dependencies like MOVE, COMPUTE, etc.) + export to…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight single-header pattern-matching library for C++17 with macro-free APIs. Try it at https://godbolt.org/z/8YMr8Kz8j
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Next-gen decompiler.
2018 · rev.ng · its alternatives →
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Coati▲63A cross-platform source explorer for C/C++ & Java
2016 · thaicockfight.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · prodfiler.com · its alternatives →
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[I'm the author] Spall is a web-accessible profiler that I made to help my web-dev friends load gigabyte+ JSON traces without lunch-break-long load times. Recently, Spall got experimental support for auto-tracing with binary traces (along with an in-progress native-port, to give it more memory headroom), which was used to help track down and fix some hard-to-spot lock contention issues in the Odin-language compiler. I demoed it at the Handmade Seattle conference in October, https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2022/spall/, with a head-to-head against Perfetto,…
2023 · gravitymoth.com · its alternatives →
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hey guys, i wanted to show one of my side projects. The idea is a coding harness (independent of models) natively designed for C/C++ developer workflows. I'm a C++ dev and do not find claude code work well with C++ toolchain like gdb and perf. The current version has integrations for gdb, clang-tidy, cppcheck, sanitizers, perf, benchmarking, compile DB navigation, Godbolt, symbolization, binary inspection, and decompilation. It supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and self-hosted models. There are editor workflows for VS Code, CLion, emacs, neovim, and cursor.
Jul 2026 · byteask.ai · its alternatives →
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I wrote this tool during an internship at Narf Industries in 2023. It's a REPL that allows for quickly developing, testing, and fuzzing for HTTP request smuggling attack payloads. I started the internship having never worked with web servers, and have now found over 100 HTTP implementation bugs. I attribute this mostly to the ease of experimentation in the Garden. REPL-oriented fuzzing is just a really good interface for finding parsing bugs. It's pretty neat to able to run a differential fuzzer, categorize and display all the discovered discrepancies, then let a human pick through them and…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A C++17 library for reading and writing NumPy .npy files, with optional .npz (zip) archive support - symisc/sy-numpy-cpp
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A minimal stack-based VM. Contribute to codr7/liblg development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · profiler.bitfusionlabs.com · its alternatives →
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Check out our new project to add some insight into OOM kill events for Go programs. Source code: https://github.com/parca-dev/oomprof/ Description of how it was put together: https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/08/13/oomprof
2021 · polarsignals.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN - our team wants to open source a project called NASTY (NASTY Abstract Syntax Tree thingY) that we built for ourselves. NASTY was built to maintain testable/composable data pipelines. Our team was ripping our hair out trying to maintain dbt/SQL scripts across different data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres, Snowflake) on top of ever shifting data foundations maintained by our customer's internal data teams. NASTY is the result of our learnings from field experience. We wanted to write abstractions so that we could reuse code. We wanted to bundle those abstractions…
2024 · getnasty.dev · its alternatives →
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