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Open-source projects built with C++

There are currently 3036 open-source projects built with C++, with a combined total of 9201.8k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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linuxdeployqt
linuxdeployqtprobonopd/linuxdeployqt

A tool to make Linux applications self-contained by bundling required libraries and plugins, and optionally generate AppImages.

2.5k443C++
10 months ago
dso
dsoJakobEngel/dso

A direct sparse odometry library for real-time monocular visual SLAM, estimating camera motion from image sequences.

2.5k920C++
2 years ago
Carter
CarterCarterCommunity/Carter

A thin layer of extension methods over ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs for more explicit and enjoyable web development.

2.4k197C#
1 month ago
olive.c
olive.ctsoding/olive.c

A single-header, dependency-free 2D graphics library for C that renders pixels directly into memory.

2.4k134C++
11 months ago
Diamorphine
Diamorphinem0nad/Diamorphine

A Linux Kernel Module (LKM) rootkit for hiding processes, granting root privileges, and making files invisible.

2.4k486C
4 months ago
Serial Communication Library
Serial Communication Librarywjwwood/serial

A cross-platform C++ library for interfacing with RS-232 serial ports, providing a modern C++ interface similar to PySerial.

2.4k1.2kC++
2 years ago
Litehtml
Litehtmllitehtml/litehtml

A lightweight HTML/CSS rendering engine that parses and positions HTML elements without drawing dependencies.

2.4k300C++
1 day ago
ZeroFormatter
ZeroFormatterneuecc/ZeroFormatter

A high-performance C# serializer with infinitely fast deserialization for .NET, .NET Core, and Unity.

2.4k251C#
4 years ago
CacheManager
CacheManagerMichaCo/CacheManager

An open-source caching abstraction layer for .NET that simplifies complex caching scenarios with multi-layer support and advanced features.

2.4k451C#
6 months ago
Docker.DotNet
Docker.DotNetMicrosoft/Docker.DotNet

A fully asynchronous .NET (C#) client library for interacting with the Docker Remote API.

2.4k416C#
1 year ago
SmartDeblur
SmartDeblurY-Vladimir/SmartDeblur

A desktop application for restoring defocused and blurred images using advanced deconvolution algorithms.

2.4k362C++
7 years ago
MAVlink
MAVlinkmavlink/mavlink

A lightweight, header-only message marshalling library for communication between drones and ground control stations.

2.4k2.2kPython
2 days ago
kcl
kclkcl-lang/kcl

A constraint-based record and functional language for writing, validating, and managing complex configurations, especially in cloud-native scenarios.

2.4k170Rust
17 hours ago
ESPAudio
ESPAudioearlephilhower/ESP8266Audio

Arduino library for playing MOD, WAV, FLAC, MIDI, RTTTL, OGG/Opus, MP3, and AAC audio files on ESP8266, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico via I2S DACs or software delta-sigma DAC.

2.4k471C
27 days ago
Utf8Json
Utf8Jsonneuecc/Utf8Json

A high-performance, zero-allocation JSON serializer for C# that reads/writes directly to UTF8 binary.

2.4k268C#
4 years ago
Polycode
Polycodeivansafrin/Polycode

A cross-platform C++/Lua framework for creative coding with 2D/3D graphics, shaders, sound, networking, and physics.

2.4k349C++
2 years ago
flann
flannmariusmuja/flann

A C++ library for fast approximate nearest neighbor searches in high-dimensional spaces with automatic algorithm selection.

2.4k662C++
2 years ago
octomap
octomapOctoMap/octomap

An efficient probabilistic 3D mapping framework based on octrees for robotics and computer vision applications.

2.4k701C++
27 days ago
CSCore
CSCorefiloe/cscore

A comprehensive .NET audio library for playing, recording, encoding, decoding, and real-time processing of audio in C#.

2.4k465C#
2 years ago
lwip
lwipEyalAr/lwip

A fast, comprehensive, and dependency-free image processing library for Node.js with native bindings.

2.4k225C
4 years ago
OpenImageIO
OpenImageIOOpenImageIO/oiio

A robust, format-agnostic library for reading, writing, and processing images, designed for VFX and animation pipelines.

2.4k692C++
16 hours ago
EntityFramework-Plus
EntityFramework-Pluszzzprojects/EntityFramework-Plus

Extends Entity Framework with performance-enhancing features like batch operations, caching, auditing, and query optimization.

2.3k319C#
11 days ago
EntityX
EntityXalecthomas/entityx

A fast, type-safe C++11 Entity-Component System for game development and simulation.

2.3k301C++
1 year ago
LodePNG
LodePNGlvandeve/lodepng

A lightweight PNG encoder and decoder library in C and C++ with zero dependencies.

2.3k460C++
3 months ago
go-sdl2
go-sdl2veandco/go-sdl2

A Go binding for the SDL2 library, enabling cross-platform multimedia application development in Go.

2.3k231C
1 year ago
champ
champchvmp/champ

An open-source ROS-based quadruped controller framework for building and controlling legged robots, based on MIT Cheetah research.

2.3k445C++
2 years ago
libcudacxx
libcudacxxNVIDIA/libcudacxx

NVIDIA's implementation of the C++ Standard Library for CUDA C++ development.

2.3k196C++
2 years ago
Libs
Libsmattiasgustavsson/libs

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

2.3k148C
7 months ago
Circle
Circlersta2/circle

A C++ bare metal programming environment for Raspberry Pi, providing libraries and drivers for hardware control without an OS.

2.3k302C
3 days ago
GBDK
GBDKgbdk-2020/gbdk-2020

A cross-platform development kit for creating games on classic consoles like the Game Boy, NES, and Sega Master System using C.

2.3k146C
5 days ago
FLTK
FLTKfltk/fltk

A cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux, Windows, and macOS with modern functionality and minimal bloat.

2.3k341C++
3 days ago
casADi
casADicasadi/casadi

A symbolic framework for numeric optimization with automatic differentiation and code generation capabilities.

2.3k453C++
4 days ago
webworker-threads
webworker-threadsaudreyt/node-webworker-threads

A Node.js module that implements the Web Worker API using native threads for CPU-bound tasks.

2.3k145C++
5 years ago
CommandLineUtils
CommandLineUtilsnatemcmaster/CommandLineUtils

A .NET library for building command-line applications with argument parsing, validation, and help text generation.

2.3k261C#
1 month ago
nlopt
nloptstevengj/nlopt

A library for nonlinear optimization, providing a unified interface to multiple local and global optimization algorithms.

2.3k682C
2 months ago
Simd
Simdermig1979/Simd

A high-performance C++ image processing and machine learning library optimized with SIMD instructions across multiple CPU architectures.

2.3k453C++
2 days ago
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