re2c. “re2c is a lexer generator for C/C++”. See skvadrik/re2c on Github. This might be fast enough that I would use it instead of writing a hand-written scanner.

cmark. “CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C”. Also see Github’s fork at github/cmark.

CommonMark

GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec

Text Editor Performance Comparison

Research Debt

bcachefs. “The COW filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data”

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