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tylertreat/chan

Pure C implementation of Go channels. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/tylertreat/chan · Shell · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4399
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 2309
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1427 stars · 118 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A pure C library that implements Go-style channels (buffered and unbuffered) on top of pthreads, providing CSP-style communication and synchronization primitives. It supports sending, receiving, closing channels, and select-like operations.

Use cases

  • implement go-style channels in c
  • synchronize pthreads with message passing
  • build producer-consumer pipelines in c
  • csp-style concurrency in c programs
  • pass messages between threads without manual locks

When to choose

  • you want Go channel semantics in a C codebase
  • you need simple thread-safe message passing without hand-rolling mutexes and condition variables
  • you prefer a small, dependency-free C library

When to avoid

  • you need async runtimes or goroutine scheduling, not just channels
  • your project is C++ and you'd rather use standard primitives or a C++ library
  • you need actively maintained software with recent releases

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

concurrency developer-tools programming-languages c cross-platform go-channels csp synchronization pthreads linux macos

1 source

Member repositories

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