c-lightning is a a BOLT-compliant Lightning implementation by Blockstream [2] written in C. Version 1 of c-lightning was released on August 8th, 2015, and has since been under active beta development. c-lightning runs on Linux.
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Plugin Support Architecture
On top of complying with all BOLT standards, c-lightning is developing an architecture for plugins. Plugins can be built to extend the c-lightning command line API.
Developer Tools
There are a number of developer tools, libraries and plugins that exist for the c-lightning implementation.
GitHub - ElementsProject/lightning-charge: A simple drop-in solution for accepting lightning payments
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GitHub - ElementsProject/paypercall: Charge for HTTP APIs on a pay-per-call basis with Bitcoin and Lightning
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GitHub - ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-php: PHP client for lightning-charge
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GitHub - ElementsProject/lightning-charge-client-js: JavaScript client for lightning-charge