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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 8146.5k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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xxHash
xxHashCyan4973/xxHash

An extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm that processes data at RAM speed limits.

11.0k890C
11 days ago
Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Way
Learn FFmpeg libav the Hard Wayleandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial

A hands-on tutorial teaching how to use FFmpeg's libav libraries for media processing, from basics to transcoding and transmuxing.

11.0k1.0kC
2 months ago
Thrift Delphi Software Library
Thrift Delphi Software Libraryapache/thrift

A lightweight, language-independent RPC framework for building cross-language services with clean abstractions for transport and serialization.

10.9k4.1kC++
11 hours ago
F Prime
F Primenasa/fprime

A flight-proven, component-driven framework for rapid development of spaceflight and embedded software applications.

10.9k1.5kC++
8 hours ago
libui
libuiandlabs/libui

A portable C library for creating native GUI applications on Windows, Unix (GTK+), and macOS.

10.9k617C
1 year ago
Eclipse Mosquitto (k)
Eclipse Mosquitto (k)eclipse/mosquitto

An open-source MQTT broker and client library implementing MQTT 5.0, 3.1.1, and 3.1 protocols.

10.8k2.6kC
3 days ago
robotgo
robotgogo-vgo/robotgo

A Go library for cross-platform desktop automation, enabling mouse/keyboard control, screen reading, and window management.

10.7k954Go
7 days ago
triton-inference-server
triton-inference-serverNVIDIA/triton-inference-server

An open-source inference serving platform for deploying AI models from multiple frameworks across cloud, data center, and edge devices.

10.6k1.8kPython
1 day ago
GitHub repository
GitHub repositoryrerun-io/rerun

An open-source SDK for logging, storing, querying, and visualizing multimodal, time-series data like images, point clouds, and tensors.

10.6k716Rust
10 hours ago
Perspective
Perspectivefinos/perspective

An interactive analytics and data visualization component for large and streaming datasets, with a high-performance WebAssembly engine.

10.4k1.3kC++
2 days ago
Practical samples of Blazor Server-Side
Practical samples of Blazor Server-Sidedodyg/practical-aspnetcore

A comprehensive collection of practical ASP.NET Core samples covering versions 2.1 through 10.0 with detailed explanations.

10.4k1.4kC#
7 days ago
Practical samples of Blazor
Practical samples of Blazordodyg/practical-aspnetcore

A comprehensive collection of practical ASP.NET Core samples covering versions 2.1 through 10.0 with detailed explanations.

10.4k1.4kC#
7 days ago
OpenFrameworks
OpenFrameworksopenframeworks/openFrameworks

A community-developed cross-platform C++ toolkit for creative coding and interactive art.

10.4k2.6kC++
7 days ago
MudBlazor
MudBlazorMudBlazor/MudBlazor

An open-source Material Design component library for building interactive Blazor web applications with C#.

10.3k1.6kC#
2 days ago
RunAnywhere
RunAnywhereRunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks

SDKs for adding private, on-device AI features like LLM chat, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech to mobile and web apps.

10.3k352C++
3 days ago
CefSharp
CefSharpcefsharp/CefSharp

.NET bindings for embedding Chromium in WPF and Windows Forms applications.

10.2k2.9kC#
14 days ago
Jolt Physics
Jolt Physicsjrouwe/JoltPhysics

A multi-core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library for games and VR, written in C++.

10.2k703C++
1 day ago
movfuscator
movfuscatorxoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

A C compiler that reduces programs to only 'mov' instructions, demonstrating Turing-completeness and enabling extreme obfuscation.

10.2k414C
1 year ago
benchmark
benchmarkgoogle/benchmark

A C++ library for microbenchmarking code snippets, providing a framework similar to unit tests for performance measurement.

10.2k1.8kC++
2 days ago
MAME
MAMEmamedev/mame

A multi-purpose emulation framework for preserving vintage software history by documenting and emulating arcade games, computers, and consoles.

10.1k2.4kC++
2 days ago
FTXUI
FTXUIArthurSonzogni/FTXUI

A simple cross-platform C++ library for building functional-style terminal user interfaces.

10.0k579C++
2 days ago
Uno Platform
Uno Platformunoplatform/uno

Open-source platform for building single-codebase .NET applications that run natively on Web, Desktop, Mobile, and Embedded systems.

9.9k854C#
2 days ago
Lua
Lualua/lua

A lightweight, embeddable scripting language designed for extensibility and performance.

9.9k1.9kC
23 days ago
s3fs-fuse
s3fs-fuses3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

A FUSE-based file system that allows Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD to mount an S3 bucket as a local file system.

9.8k1.1kC++
10 hours ago
Sokol Gfx
Sokol Gfxfloooh/sokol

A collection of minimal, cross-platform, standalone C headers for graphics, audio, app framework, and utility functions.

9.8k630C
1 day ago
Sokol
Sokolfloooh/sokol

A collection of minimal, cross-platform, standalone C headers for graphics, audio, input, and app framework.

9.8k630C
1 day ago
StockSharp
StockSharpStockSharp/StockSharp

An open-source C# platform for algorithmic trading and quantitative analysis across stocks, forex, crypto, and options markets.

9.8k2.1kC#
4 days ago
Valve Source SDK
Valve Source SDKValveSoftware/source-sdk-2013

Open-source game development SDK for creating mods and games using Valve's Source 1 engine.

9.7k2.9kC++
25 days ago
Syntax
Syntaxgoogle/re2

A fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression library with linear-time matching guarantees, designed for production use.

9.7k1.2kC++
3 months ago
VeraCrypt
VeraCryptveracrypt/VeraCrypt

Open-source disk encryption software with enhanced security features, based on TrueCrypt.

9.6k1.2kC
2 days ago
cudf
cudfrapidsai/cudf

A GPU-accelerated DataFrame library for tabular data processing, part of the RAPIDS data science suite.

9.6k1.0kC++
2 days ago
YARA
YARAVirusTotal/yara

A pattern-matching tool for malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples using custom rules.

9.6k1.6kC
2 months ago
Cocos Creator
Cocos Creatorcocos-creator/engine

A free, open-source, cross-platform game engine for creating high-performance 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.

9.5k2.1kC++
2 months ago
DevilutionX
DevilutionXdiasurgical/devilutionX

A modern source port of Diablo and Hellfire with engine improvements, bug fixes, and quality-of-life features.

9.4k970C++
4 days ago
GameNetworkingSockets
GameNetworkingSocketsValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

A connection-oriented, message-based UDP transport layer for games with reliable/unreliable messaging, encryption, and P2P NAT traversal.

9.4k706C++
2 days ago
LiteDB
LiteDBmbdavid/LiteDB

A lightweight, serverless .NET NoSQL embedded database stored in a single data file.

9.4k1.3kC#
1 month ago
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