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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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GitHub repositoryintel-isl/Open3D

An open-source library for rapid development of software dealing with 3D data, with support for C++ and Python.

13.5k2.6kC++
2 days ago
ArchiSteamFarm
ArchiSteamFarmJustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm

A C# application for farming Steam trading cards from multiple accounts simultaneously without requiring the Steam client.

13.2k1.1kC#
2 days ago
John The Jumbo
John The Jumbomagnumripper/JohnTheRipper

An advanced offline password cracker supporting hundreds of hash and cipher types across multiple platforms.

13.0k2.5kC
3 days ago
RetroArch
RetroArchlibretro/RetroArch

A cross-platform frontend for the libretro API, enabling emulators and game engines to run as modular cores.

13.0k2.1kC
1 day ago
Cap'n Proto
Cap'n Protocapnproto/capnproto

An insanely fast binary data interchange format and capability-based RPC system.

13.0k1.0kC++
3 days ago
Ninja
Ninjaninja-build/ninja

A small build system focused on speed, designed to compile software quickly.

12.9k1.8kC++
12 days ago
Minetest
Minetestminetest/minetest

An open-source voxel game engine and creation platform with easy modding and game development tools.

12.8k2.3kC++
3 days ago
Nmap
Nmapnmap/nmap

A free and open-source network discovery and security auditing tool for mapping networks and identifying services.

12.8k2.8kC
2 days ago
mimalloc
mimallocmicrosoft/mimalloc

A compact, high-performance general-purpose memory allocator with excellent performance and security features.

12.7k1.1kC
3 days ago
libfacedetection
libfacedetectionShiqiYu/libfacedetection

A high-performance CNN-based face detection library written in pure C++ with SIMD optimizations, achieving up to 1000 FPS.

12.7k3.0kC++
7 months ago
robotjs
robotjsoctalmage/robotjs

Node.js native addon for cross-platform desktop automation, controlling mouse, keyboard, and reading screen pixels.

12.7k993C
9 days ago
Mongoose
Mongoosecesanta/mongoose

A cross-platform embedded networking library for C/C++ with built-in TCP/IP stack, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT support.

12.7k2.9kC
2 days ago
EnTT
EnTTskypjack/entt

A header-only, fast, and reliable entity-component system (ECS) library for modern C++ game development.

12.6k1.1kC++
2 days ago
Tiled
Tiledbjorn/tiled

A flexible, general-purpose tile map editor for creating game levels in RPGs, platformers, and other tile-based games.

12.5k1.9kC++
2 days ago
Citus
Cituscitusdata/citus

A PostgreSQL extension that transforms Postgres into a distributed database for high performance at any scale.

12.4k764C
2 days ago
Z3
Z3Z3Prover/z3

A high-performance theorem prover and satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solver from Microsoft Research.

12.2k1.6kC++
2 days ago
Redpanda
Redpandaredpanda-data/redpanda

A Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that's 10x faster, with no ZooKeeper or JVM dependencies.

12.0k732C++
1 day ago
Redpanda
Redpandaredpanda-data/redpanda

A Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that is 10x faster, simpler to operate, and free from ZooKeeper and JVMs.

12.0k732C++
1 day ago
Redpanda (k)
Redpanda (k)vectorizedio/redpanda

A Kafka-compatible streaming data platform that's 10x faster, with no ZooKeeper or JVM.

12.0k732C++
1 day ago
RT-Thread
RT-ThreadRT-Thread/rt-thread

An open-source, community-driven real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for resource-constrained IoT devices.

11.9k5.4kC
2 days ago
MediatR
MediatRjbogard/MediatR

A simple, in-process mediator implementation for .NET that supports request/response, commands, queries, notifications, and events.

11.8k2.2kC#
1 month ago
SFML
SFMLLaurentGomila/SFML

A cross-platform C++ multimedia library providing windowing, graphics, audio, and networking APIs for game and application development.

11.8k1.9kC++
2 days ago
SFML
SFMLSFML/SFML

A simple, fast, cross-platform C++ multimedia library for windowing, graphics, audio, and networking.

11.8k1.9kC++
2 days ago
LZ4
LZ4lz4/lz4

An extremely fast lossless compression algorithm offering speeds over 500 MB/s per core with a high-speed decoder.

11.8k1.5kC
23 days ago
SentencePiece
SentencePiecegoogle/sentencepiece

An unsupervised text tokenizer and detokenizer for neural network-based text generation systems with subword units.

11.8k1.3kC++
2 days ago
Manticore Search
Manticore Searchmanticoresoftware/manticoresearch

An open-source, fast, and easy-to-use database designed for full-text and hybrid search, serving as a drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch.

11.8k624C++
1 day ago
sherpa-onnx
sherpa-onnxk2-fsa/sherpa-onnx

A next-generation Kaldi-based toolkit for offline speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and audio processing across 12 languages and diverse hardware.

11.8k1.4kC++
2 days ago
WCDB
WCDBTencent/wcdb

A cross-platform mobile database framework based on SQLite, offering ORM, encryption, and corruption recovery.

11.5k1.5kC
14 days ago
h2o
h2oh2o/h2o

A high-performance HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 server written in C, optimized for speed and low latency.

11.4k878C
9 days ago
Dependencies
Dependencieslucasg/Dependencies

A modern open-source Dependency Walker rewrite for Windows developers to troubleshoot DLL load dependencies.

11.4k924C#
1 year ago
BenchmarkDotNet
BenchmarkDotNetdotnet/BenchmarkDotNet

A powerful .NET library for transforming methods into benchmarks, tracking performance, and sharing reproducible measurement experiments.

11.4k1.1kC#
5 days ago
openalpr
openalpropenalpr/openalpr

An open-source Automatic License Plate Recognition library written in C++ with bindings for multiple programming languages.

11.4k2.5kC++
2 years ago
libvips
libvipslibvips/libvips

A demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library optimized for speed and low memory usage.

11.3k758C
2 days ago
eos
eosEOSIO/eos

An open-source smart contract platform enabling businesses to build high-performance, high-security decentralized applications.

11.2k3.6kC++
3 years ago
eos
eosEOSIO/eos

An open-source smart contract platform enabling businesses to build high-performance decentralized applications on blockchain.

11.2k3.6kC++
3 years ago
Craft
Craftfogleman/Craft

A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL with online multiplayer support.

11.0k1.4kC
2 years ago
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