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Open-source projects built with C++

There are currently 2487 open-source projects built with C++, with a combined total of 8991.3k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is C++.

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openscad
openscadopenscad/openscad

A free software for creating solid 3D CAD models using a script-based approach, focusing on CAD rather than artistic modeling.

9.5k1.5kC++
1 day ago
Cemu
Cemucemu-project/Cemu

A Wii U emulator that runs most Wii U games and homebrew in a playable state on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

9.4k851C++
3 days ago
LiteDB
LiteDBmbdavid/LiteDB

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

9.4k1.3kC#
23 days ago
Robo 3T
Robo 3TStudio3T/robomongo

A native, cross-platform MongoDB GUI client that embeds the mongo shell for shell-centric database management.

9.4k822C++
3 years ago
GB Studio
GB Studiochrismaltby/gb-studio

A drag-and-drop retro game creator for making Game Boy games, available for Mac, Linux, and Windows.

9.3k560TypeScript
3 days ago
Stacer
Staceroguzhaninan/Stacer

A Linux system optimizer and monitoring tool with a graphical interface for performance tuning and cleanup.

9.3k628C++
2 years ago
EASTL
EASTLelectronicarts/EASTL

A high-performance C++ template library of containers, algorithms, and iterators for runtime and tool development.

9.3k1.0kC++
6 months ago
EASTL
EASTLelectronicarts/EASTL

A high-performance C++ template library of containers, algorithms, and iterators for runtime and tool development.

9.3k1.0kC++
6 months ago
ChakraCore
ChakraCoreMicrosoft/ChakraCore

An open-source JavaScript engine with a C API for embedding JavaScript support into C/C++ projects.

9.3k1.2kJavaScript
3 months ago
Seastar
Seastarscylladb/seastar

A high-performance, event-driven C++ framework for building asynchronous, non-blocking server-side applications.

9.3k1.7kC++
1 day ago
go-sqlite3
go-sqlite3mattn/go-sqlite3

A SQLite3 driver for Go that conforms to the built-in database/sql interface.

9.1k1.2kC
3 days ago
Torch7 Cheat sheet
Torch7 Cheat sheettorch/torch7

A scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms, built around multi-dimensional tensor operations.

9.1k2.3kC
1 year ago
async-profiler
async-profilerjvm-profiling-tools/async-profiler

A low overhead sampling profiler for Java that avoids safepoint bias and supports CPU, heap, and native memory profiling.

9.0k974C++
1 day ago
Sysdig Falco
Sysdig Falcofalcosecurity/falco

A cloud native runtime security tool for Linux that detects abnormal behavior and security threats in real-time.

9.0k1.0kC++
8 days ago
JsonCpp
JsonCppopen-source-parsers/jsoncpp

A mature C++ library for reading, writing, and manipulating JSON data with comment preservation.

8.8k2.7kC++
25 days ago
progress
progressXfennec/progress

A Linux tool that shows progress, estimated time, and throughput for coreutils commands like cp, mv, and dd.

8.8k312C
1 year ago
BigDL
BigDLintel-analytics/BigDL

An LLM acceleration library for Intel XPU (GPU, NPU, CPU) to speed up local inference and finetuning of popular models.

8.8k1.4kPython
4 months ago
Capstone
Capstoneaquynh/capstone

A lightweight multi-architecture disassembly framework for binary analysis and reverse engineering.

8.8k1.7kC
4 days ago
ORB_SLAM3
ORB_SLAM3UZ-SLAMLab/ORB_SLAM3

An accurate open-source library for visual, visual-inertial, and multi-map SLAM supporting monocular, stereo, and RGB-D cameras.

8.7k3.1kC++
1 year ago
Vowpal Wabbit (VW)
Vowpal Wabbit (VW)VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit

A fast online machine learning system with advanced techniques like hashing, reductions, and contextual bandits.

8.7k1.9kC++
1 month ago
Aeron
Aeronreal-logic/Aeron

High-performance messaging system for reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC transport with predictable low latency.

8.7k1.0kJava
3 days ago
oat++
oat++oatpp/oatpp

A zero-dependency, portable C++ web framework for building highly scalable and resource-efficient applications.

8.6k1.4kC++
6 months ago
neutralinojs
neutralinojsneutralinojs/neutralinojs

A lightweight cross-platform desktop app framework using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS without bundling Chromium.

8.5k522C++
1 day ago
JUCE
JUCEjulianstorer/JUCE

An open-source cross-platform C++ framework for building desktop, mobile, and audio plugin applications.

8.5k2.1kC++
3 days ago
Juce
Jucejuce-framework/JUCE

An open-source cross-platform C++ framework for building desktop/mobile applications and professional audio plug-ins.

8.5k2.1kC++
3 days ago
binaryen
binaryenWebAssembly/binaryen

A compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly, providing optimization, assembly, disassembly, and conversion utilities.

8.5k860WebAssembly
1 day ago
Endlessh
Endlesshskeeto/endlessh

An SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless banner to trap and waste attackers' time.

8.5k301C
2 years ago
node-sass
node-sasssass/node-sass

Node.js bindings to LibSass for compiling Sass/SCSS to CSS at high speed.

8.5k1.3kC++
1 year ago
GitExtensions
GitExtensionsgitextensions/gitextensions

A standalone UI tool for managing Git repositories with Windows Explorer and Visual Studio integration.

8.5k2.2kC#
8 days ago
Proxygen
Proxygenfacebook/proxygen

A collection of high-performance C++ HTTP libraries for building servers, proxies, and clients, supporting HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/3.

8.3k1.5kC++
1 day ago
ssdb
ssdbideawu/ssdb

A fast, persistent NoSQL database with Redis compatibility, designed for storing collection data on disk.

8.3k1.4kC++
3 years ago
bspwm
bspwmbaskerville/bspwm

A tiling window manager for X11 that organizes windows using a binary space partitioning tree.

8.3k438C
8 months ago
C++ REST SDK
C++ REST SDKMicrosoft/cpprestsdk

A C++ library for cloud-based client-server communication using modern asynchronous APIs.

8.3k1.7kC++
7 days ago
orjson
orjsonijl/orjson

A fast, correct JSON library for Python with native support for dataclasses, datetimes, and numpy.

8.1k309Python
4 days ago
Facebook
Facebookfacebook/facebook-ios-sdk

Integrate Facebook Platform features like Login, Sharing, Analytics, and Graph API into iOS and tvOS applications.

8.1k3.7kSwift
5 days ago
wabt
wabtWebAssembly/wabt

A suite of command-line tools for manipulating WebAssembly files, including conversion between text and binary formats, validation, and interpretation.

8.0k810C++
3 days ago
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