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Open-source projects built with C++

There are currently 986 open-source projects built with C++, with a combined total of 8150.0k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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ExcelDataReader
ExcelDataReaderExcelDataReader/ExcelDataReader

A lightweight and fast C# library for reading Microsoft Excel files (including .xls, .xlsx, .xlsb, and .csv) from .NET applications.

4.4k1.0kC#
14 days ago
libsass
libsasssass/libsass

A C/C++ library that compiles Sass to CSS, offering a portable and efficient alternative to Ruby Sass.

4.3k474C++
6 months ago
Fury
Furyalipay/fury

A high-performance multi-language serialization framework using JIT compilation and zero-copy techniques for fast data exchange.

4.3k409Java
1 day ago
LCUI
LCUIlc-soft/LCUI

A C library for building cross-platform desktop GUIs with web-like development tools and CSS styling.

4.3k368C
24 days ago
LCUI
LCUIlc-soft/LCUI

A C library for building cross-platform desktop GUIs with web-like development tools and CSS styling.

4.3k368C
24 days ago
Kvrocks
Kvrocksapache/incubator-kvrocks

A distributed key-value NoSQL database compatible with Redis protocol, using RocksDB for storage to reduce memory costs and increase capacity.

4.3k625C++
1 day ago
libjpeg-turbo
libjpeg-turbolibjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo

A high-performance JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions to accelerate compression and decompression, typically 2-6x faster than libjpeg.

4.3k1.1kC
22 hours ago
PocketSphinx
PocketSphinxcmusphinx/pocketsphinx

A lightweight, open-source continuous speech recognition engine for embedded and offline applications.

4.3k729C
10 days ago
backward-cpp
backward-cppbombela/backward-cpp

A C++ library for generating beautiful, detailed stack traces with source code snippets and inlining information.

4.3k529C++
1 year ago
Diligent Engine
Diligent EngineDiligentGraphics/DiligentEngine

A modern cross-platform low-level graphics API abstraction layer and rendering framework for game engines and 3D applications.

4.3k376Batchfile
1 day ago
Malmo
MalmoMicrosoft/malmo

An AI experimentation platform built on Minecraft for training and researching intelligent agents in complex 3D environments.

4.3k609Java
7 months ago
DotNetty
DotNettyAzure/DotNetty

A port of Netty, providing an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for high-performance protocol servers and clients in .NET.

4.2k1.0kC#
3 months ago
libffi
libffilibffi/libffi

A portable foreign-function interface library that enables calling compiled code from interpreters and other languages at runtime.

4.2k807C
4 days ago
gifsicle
gifsiclekohler/gifsicle

A command-line tool for creating, manipulating, and optimizing GIF images and animations.

4.2k253C
2 months ago
Radzen.Blazor
Radzen.Blazorakorchev/razor.radzen.com

A free, open-source UI component library for Blazor with 100+ native components, advanced theming, and production-ready reliability.

4.2k944C#
1 day ago
f-stack
f-stackF-Stack/f-stack

A high-performance user-space network development kit based on DPDK and FreeBSD TCP/IP stack for kernel bypass applications.

4.2k950C
4 days ago
PixelGameEngine
PixelGameEngineOneLoneCoder/olcPixelGameEngine

A single-header C++ pixel drawing and UI framework for game development, visualization, and education.

4.2k916C++
7 months ago
Cake
Cakecake-build/cake

A cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for compiling, testing, packaging, and more.

4.2k764C#
16 days ago
Triton
TritonJonathanSalwan/Triton

A dynamic binary analysis library for building program analysis tools, automating reverse engineering, and emulating code.

4.1k582C++
9 days ago
Jsmn
Jsmnzserge/jsmn

A minimalistic, single-header JSON tokenizer/parser in C for resource-limited and embedded systems.

4.1k803C
1 year ago
Velox
Veloxfacebookincubator/velox

A composable and fully extensible C++ execution engine library for building high-performance data management systems.

4.1k1.5kC++
9 hours ago
ring
ringbriansmith/ring

A Rust cryptography library derived from BoringSSL, designed as an experimental alternative to OpenSSL.

4.1k787Assembly
15 hours ago
Warp-CTC
Warp-CTCbaidu-research/warp-ctc

A fast parallel implementation of the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss function for CPU and GPU.

4.1k1.0kCuda
2 years ago
qira
qirageohot/qira

A QEMU-based interactive runtime analyzer for debugging and reverse engineering, serving as an alternative to strace and gdb.

4.1k466C
3 years ago
Qira
QiraBinaryAnalysisPlatform/qira

A QEMU-based interactive runtime analyzer for dynamic binary analysis and reverse engineering.

4.1k466C
3 years ago
heaptrack
heaptrackKDE/heaptrack

A heap memory profiler for Linux that traces allocations with stack traces to find memory leaks, hotspots, and temporary allocations.

4.1k231C++
12 hours ago
Mapperly
Mapperlyriok/mapperly

A .NET source generator for generating high-performance object mappings with no runtime reflection.

4.0k216C#
4 days ago
OneOf
OneOfmcintyre321/OneOf

F#-like discriminated unions for C# with exhaustive compile-time matching, providing a type-safe alternative to polymorphism and exceptions.

4.0k164C#
1 year ago
WinAppDriver
WinAppDriverMicrosoft/WinAppDriver

A service enabling Selenium-like UI test automation for Windows desktop applications (UWP, WinForms, WPF, Win32).

4.0k1.4kC#
1 year ago
RmlUi
RmlUimikke89/RmlUi

A lightweight C++ UI library that renders HTML/CSS-like documents for games and applications, with full control over rendering and input.

4.0k417C++
1 day ago
ttygif
ttygificholy/ttygif

Convert terminal recordings (ttyrec files) into animated GIFs by capturing screenshots of each frame.

4.0k248C
8 months ago
Drake
DrakeRobotLocomotion/drake

A toolbox for model-based design, simulation, and verification of robotic systems.

4.0k1.4kC++
12 hours ago
oneDNN
oneDNNoneapi-src/oneDNN

An open-source cross-platform performance library of basic building blocks for deep learning applications, optimized for CPUs and GPUs.

4.0k1.1kC++
13 hours ago
sumo
sumoeclipse/sumo

An open-source, microscopic traffic simulation package for modeling large urban networks with multiple transport modes.

4.0k1.7kC++
20 hours ago
Easylogging++
Easylogging++amrayn/easyloggingpp

A single-header C++ logging library offering asynchronous low-latency logging, high configurability, and extensive built-in features.

3.9k950C++
9 months ago
Slurm
SlurmSchedMD/slurm

An open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system for Linux-based high-performance computing.

3.9k826C
19 hours ago
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