Known clients

A list of known users of some variant of this collector:

• Acton - a fault tolerant distributed programming environment for writing scalable and robust applications
• Algol-68RS - the RSRE Algol-68RS compiler
• Asymptote - LaTeX-compatible vector graphics language
• autogen - a tool to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs with large amounts of repetitious text
• bdwgc-d - the D programming language bindings to libgc (more dated work: libgc-d)
• Bigloo Scheme by Manuel Serrano and others
• BlitzMax NG - a fast cross-platform, open-source, programming language
• boehmgc-ada - Boehm GC interface library for gcc-Ada (GNAT)
• cacaovm - Java VM implementation with JIT
• Camloo ML compilers by Manuel Serrano and others
• CapableVMs - a research project how VMs can utilize hardware capabilities (e.g. CHERI)
• Cecil by University of Washington
• Cedar - Xerox Cedar programming environment
• clasp - clasp Common Lisp environment
• Crystal, a general-purpose object-oriented programming language
• Codon - a high-performance, zero-overhead, extensible Python compiler using LLVM
• Coraza Proxy WASM - proxy-wasm filter based on Coraza WAF
• cyclone - Cyclone language compiler
• D (Dlang), an object-oriented imperative multi-paradigm system programming language
• Delphi API unit for Boehm GC
• DotGNU Portable.NET project, another open source .NET implementation'
• Eclipse Common Lisp - Elwood Corporation's Lisp system, C library, and translator
• ELinks - a full-featured text WWW browser
• elite-lang - a Script-oriented compiler
• Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL), a programming language, an implementation of Common Lisp
• Escargot - a memory optimized JavaScript engine for mid-range devices
• Ferret - a free software lisp implementation designed to be used in real time embedded control systems
• FLINT - a C library for doing number theory
• Fuzion - A language that unifies concepts to improve productivity and to use tools for performance
• GAP - a system for computational discrete algebra
• GCJ - the static GNU Compiler for Java (here is an attempt to integrate GCJ back into gcc)
• gclua - a modified Lua interpreter that uses libgc
• GNU Objective C runtime
• Gobo Eiffel - portable Eiffel tools and libraries
• Guile - the preferred extension language system for the GNU Project
• Gwydion Dylan - compiler for Dylan targeting C
• Harmonia Project by Berkeley
• hs-boehmgc - Haskell bindings for Boehm GC
• immer - Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++
• Inkscape - a free and open-source vector graphics editor
• Ironclad C++ - a library-augmented type-safe subset of C++
• Irssi - IRC client
• jack - Java to C transpiler
• jank - a Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with native C++ interop
• Jato VM - Java VM implementation with JIT for x86
• JCGO - Java source to C code translator
• Kaya language
• Kiesel - a small well-rounded JavaScript engine written in Zig
• libscheme by Brent Benson
• Liberty Eiffel - the GNU compiler for the Eiffel programming language, a continuation of SmartEiffel
• LilyPond - a music engraving program
• Liquid War 6 - a multiplayer wargame (actually libgc is used by Guile inside)
• lwnode - a memory efficient (Lightweight) Node.js implementation
• Macaulay2 - a system to support research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra
• MAD-X - CERN application for designing particle accelerators
• madlib - Madlib language compiler
• MCP - Managed C++ GC on top of BDWGC
• Mercury - the Mercury logic programming system
• micro-libgcj - a lightweight version of the GCJ
• micro-mitten - a bare-bones Rust-like programming language, stripped down to simplify control-flow structures and the type system
• Mono - an open source implementation of the .NET development framework (uses SGen now)
• Mozilla - browser (uses bdwgc as a leak detector)
• msa - an R package for Multiple Sequence Alignment
• MzScheme scheme implementation
• NAGWare f90 - Fortran 90 compiler
• Nautilus - an example of Aerokernel, a very thin kernel-layer exposed directly to runtime
• Neko - VM for a high-level dynamically-typed programming language
• nottinygc - a higher-performance allocator for TinyGo WASI apps
• Nim - a statically-typed compiled systems programming language
• Nit language
• Nix - a purely functional package manager
• oo2c - Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler
• OpenModelica - an open-source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment
• p4c - P4 language reference compiler
• pclu - the portable CLU compiler
• PluotSorbet - a J2ME-compatible virtual machine written in JavaScript
• Poke - an interactive, extensible editor for binary data
• PyPy - a fast compliant alternative implementation of Python (RPython)
• Racket - a general-purpose multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp
• Radium - a graphical music editor
• RoboVM - ahead of time compiler for JVM bytecode targeting iOS, Mac OSX and Linux (MobiVM)
• rock - self-hosted ooc language compiler that generates c99
• Rust binding of bdwgc: bdwgc-alloc, rust libgc (more dated works: playXE boehm-rs, boehm_gc for Rust, huonw boehm-rs, rust Boehm, bdwgc-sys)
• sanic - a simple and small HTTP framework written in C
• SWI-Prolog - a comprehensive Prolog compiler and development environment
• Sather - an object oriented language designed to be simple, efficient, safe, flexible and non-proprietary
• Scala Native
• Shed Skin - an experimental Python-to-C++ translator
• SJS - a static ahead of time compiler for a subset of JavaScript
• STELLA - a Lisp-style symbolic programming language
• Stencyl game maker
• STklos Scheme - a free Scheme system compliant with the languages features defined in R7RS
• TeX Live - a comprehensive TeX system (actually libgc is used by Asymptote inside)
• Titanium - a Berkeley research parallel Java 1.4 superset to C translator
• Toba - a Java Virtual Machine to C translator
• treecc - Tree Compiler-Compiler
• Unity / IL2CPP - a cross-platform game 3D engine developed by Unity Technologies (list of games)
• V-lang - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software
• Vesta configuration management system
• Visual Prolog 6
• W3m - a text-based web browser
• X10 - core implementation of X10 programming language
• Xerox DocuPrint printer software (some versions)
• xic - a compiler for the Xi programming language
• zig-libgc - Zig-friendly library for interfacing with libgc
• Zile, Zile-on-Guile - a text editor development kit