"combine JavaScript’s semantics with C’s performance and predictability"

a high level imperative, object-oriented programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games

"a multithreaded event library for UNIX designed to take full advantage of the manycore, heterogenous, NUMA future"

"a language designed for generic programming"

"combines Lisp's power with Python's readability and C's performance"

"This wiki is centered around writing a better code, researching algorithms, and performing code optimization."

"a C compiler that is capable of preventing common C programming errors, including out-of-bounds memory accesses as well as many other common type-safety errors"

"CuTest is a unit testing library for the C language. It can be used to do Extreme Programming and Test-First Development in the C language. It's a fun and cute library that will make your programming fun and productive."

"a pure C, very simple durable message queue with multiple subscribers and publishers (both thread and multi-process safe)"

"Back in the days when systems programmers still disdained "high level languages" there were stories in the compiler community, passed mouth to ear about LIL, a high level assembler, whose creator, had a friendly competition with the creators of C, as to

"type declarations in C are complex, and sometimes aren’t intuitive. There is, however, a relatively simple method of reading them."

Awesome blog on language internals, build tools, more.

Basically, strategies for getting a shit-ton of data moved around fast with C and TCP/IP.

"a lightweight and easy-to-use C library for programming with the Jabber protocol". Great logo.

Some day I will have to do this for something.

One of several current attempts to speed up the Ruby memcache client.

"serves as a nice illustration of some of SWIG’s basic features"

A GPL-d version of libdjb, a collection of libraries extracted from djb's code.

"a useful trick for Macintosh C programmers"

"A full-featured and high-performance (see benchmark) event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs."

"The Vala compiler allows developers to write complex object-oriented code rapidly while maintaining a standard C API and ABI and keeping the memory requirements low."

Python's ctypes for Mozilla's JavaScript engine. Uses libffi.

a practical example of using RubyInline for improved performance