cnats
brew install cnats
v3.13.0
Apache-2.0
C client for the NATS messaging system
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365-day · #5981
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★ GitHub stars · updated 2mo ago
Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
GitHub topics
c
message-bus
message-queue
messaging
messaging-library
nats-client
Links
- https://github.com/nats-io/nats.c
- GitHub: nats-io/nats.c
- Brew formula source: Formula/c/cnats.rb
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