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Open-source projects built with C++

There are currently 941 open-source projects built with C++, with a combined total of 8079.1k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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Configure Desired Capabilities in Selenium
Configure Desired Capabilities in SeleniumSeleniumHQ/selenium

An umbrella project providing tools and libraries for automating web browsers via the W3C WebDriver specification.

34.1k8.7kJava
1 day ago
Openpose
OpenposeCMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose

Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation.

34.0k8.1kC++
1 year ago
stb_vorbis
stb_vorbisnothings/stb

A collection of single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ covering graphics, audio, game development, and utilities.

33.4k8.0kC
8 days ago
stb
stbnothings/stb

A collection of single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ covering graphics, audio, game development, and utilities.

33.4k8.0kC
8 days ago
raylib
raylibraysan5/raylib

A simple and easy-to-use C library for videogames programming and multimedia applications.

32.2k3.0kC
1 day ago
numpy
numpynumpy/numpy

The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python, providing powerful N-dimensional arrays and mathematical functions.

31.9k12.3kPython
1 day ago
RocksDB
RocksDBfacebook/rocksdb

An embeddable, persistent key-value store optimized for fast flash and RAM storage with LSM-tree design.

31.6k6.8kC++
1 day ago
Windows Calculator
Windows CalculatorMicrosoft/calculator

A modern Windows calculator app with standard, scientific, programmer, and conversion capabilities, built by Microsoft.

30.9k5.7kC++
9 days ago
shadPS4
shadPS4shadps4-emu/shadPS4

An early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD written in C++.

30.9k2.1kC++
2 days ago
Avalonia
AvaloniaAvaloniaUI/Avalonia

A cross-platform UI framework for .NET that builds desktop, mobile, embedded, and WebAssembly apps using C# and XAML.

30.6k2.7kC#
2 days ago
FlameShot
FlameShotflameshot-org/flameshot

A powerful, open-source screenshot tool with built-in annotation and editing capabilities for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

29.7k1.9kC++
8 days ago
spdlog
spdloggabime/spdlog

A fast, header-only C++ logging library with rich formatting and asynchronous support.

28.7k5.1kC++
6 days ago
Envoy
Envoylyft/envoy

A cloud-native high-performance proxy for edge, middle, and service communication in microservices architectures.

27.9k5.3kC++
1 day ago
the_silver_searcher
the_silver_searcherggreer/the_silver_searcher

A code-searching tool similar to ack, but significantly faster, with parallel search and smart file ignoring.

27.1k1.4kC
1 year ago
zstd
zstdfacebook/zstd

A fast lossless compression algorithm targeting real-time scenarios with zlib-level or better compression ratios.

27.0k2.5kC
22 days ago
rethinkdb
rethinkdbrethinkdb/rethinkdb

An open-source NoSQL database built for realtime web applications with automatic push updates.

27.0k1.9kC++
27 days ago
vcpkg
vcpkgMicrosoft/vcpkg

A free, open-source, cross-platform C/C++ package manager with a large collection of libraries and enterprise-ready features.

26.9k7.5kCMake
1 day ago
Vcpkg
Vcpkgmicrosoft/vcpkg

A free, open-source, cross-platform C/C++ package manager for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

26.9k7.5kCMake
1 day ago
libuv
libuvlibuv/libuv

A multi-platform support library focused on asynchronous I/O, originally developed for Node.js.

26.8k3.9kC
7 days ago
KeePassXC
KeePassXCkeepassxreboot/keepassxc

A modern, secure, and open-source password manager for storing and managing sensitive information across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

26.7k1.8kC++
5 days ago
Darknet
Darknetpjreddie/darknet

An open source neural network framework in C and CUDA, known for YOLO real-time object detection models.

26.4k21.1kC
2 years ago
Ungoogled Chromium
Ungoogled Chromiumungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

A privacy-focused version of Google Chromium without Google services integration.

26.3k1.1kPython
7 days ago
YouCompleteMe
YouCompleteMeycm-core/YouCompleteMe

A fast, as-you-type, fuzzy-search code completion, comprehension, and refactoring engine for Vim with support for many languages.

26.0k2.8kPython
6 days ago
FlatBuffers
FlatBuffersgoogle/flatbuffers

A cross-platform serialization library designed for maximum memory efficiency with zero-copy data access.

25.8k3.5kC++
6 days ago
MLX
MLXml-explore/mlx

An array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon with unified memory and dynamic graph construction.

25.7k1.7kC++
1 day ago
Valkey
Valkeyvalkey-io/valkey

A high-performance, open-source distributed key-value database optimized for caching and real-time workloads.

25.6k1.1kC
1 day ago
Masscan
Masscanrobertdavidgraham/masscan

An Internet-scale TCP port scanner that can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes using asynchronous SYN packets.

25.5k3.2kC
4 days ago
NativeScript
NativeScriptNativeScript/NativeScript

A framework for building truly native mobile apps for iOS, Android, and visionOS using TypeScript and popular web frameworks.

25.5k1.7kTypeScript
3 days ago
shap
shapslundberg/shap

A unified Python library for explaining any machine learning model's predictions using Shapley values from game theory.

25.3k3.7kJupyter Notebook
2 days ago
ILSpy
ILSpyicsharpcode/ILSpy

An open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, and cross-platform usage.

25.0k3.6kC#
8 days ago
v8
v8v8/v8

Google's open-source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in C++.

25.0k4.3kC++
1 day ago
tree-sitter
tree-sittertree-sitter/tree-sitter

A parser generator tool and incremental parsing library for building syntax trees in programming tools.

24.9k2.6kRust
2 days ago
WaveFunctionCollapse
WaveFunctionCollapsemxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

Generates bitmaps and tilemaps that are locally similar to a single input example, using a constraint-solving algorithm inspired by quantum mechanics.

24.9k1.3kC#
1 month ago
DB Browser for SQLite
DB Browser for SQLitesqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser

A high-quality, visual, open-source desktop application for creating, designing, and editing SQLite database files.

23.9k2.3kC++
10 days ago
simdjson
simdjsonlemire/simdjson

A high-performance C++ JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions to parse gigabytes of JSON per second.

23.7k1.2kC++
2 days ago
simdjson
simdjsonsimdjson/simdjson

A high-performance C++ JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions to parse gigabytes of JSON per second.

23.7k1.2kC++
2 days ago
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