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The sqlite codebase is well-known for being a large, well-written C codebase:

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite

The tests in particular are very impressive.

Some other notable C codebases: Redis, LuaJIT, FreeBSD, Memcached -->

https://github.com/antirez/redis

https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd

https://github.com/memcached/memcached




PostgreSQL’s source code is also really good. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=tree


Varnish and the Linux kernel should be in that list as well I think.


Nice! Here are the links:

Varnish --> https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache

Linux Kernel --> https://github.com/torvalds/linux




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