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MrKepzie/Natron

Open-source compositing software. Node-graph based. Similar in functionalities to Adobe After Effects and Nuke by The Foundry.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #openfx #vfx

Updated: 2018-09-30
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-05-06
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 13 open

1,508

stars

Forks: 160
Commits: 15,070 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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cossacklabs/acra

Database security suite. Database proxy with field-level encryption, search through encrypted data, SQL injections prevention, intrusion detection, honeypots. Supports client-side and proxy-side ("transparent") encryption. SQL, NoSQL.

Stack

Go Android Gin gRPC Go Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#crypto #cryptography #database-proxy #databases #django #encryption

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-21
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 29 open

1,493

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 1,059 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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axmolengine/axmol

Open-source C++ game engine with Lua for 2D and 3D games across mobile, desktop, WebAssembly, and Xbox (UWP).

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #axmol #cocos2d-x #cpp23 #cppwinrt

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-23
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

1,481

stars

Forks: 302
Commits: 5,340 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pegasusTrader/PandoraTrader

高频量化交易平台 C++ Trade Platform for quant developer 【浮生着甚苦奔忙，量化之路阻且长。行行代码凝心血，十年辛苦不寻常】

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#ctp #quant #trade-platform #trading-platform

Updated: 2025-10-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-01-03
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 8 open

1,475

stars

Forks: 417
Commits: 150 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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beakthoven/TrickyStoreOSS

Open source alternative to proprietary Tricky Store module

Stack

Kotlin CMake Gradle

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-08-04
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 11 open

1,455

stars

Forks: 126
Commits: 198 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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opentomb/OpenTomb

An open-source Tomb Raider 1-5 engine remake

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#discontinued #inactive #not-maintained

Updated: 2025-02-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-08
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 123 open

1,445

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 1,350 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

superpoweredSDK/Low-Latency-Android-iOS-Linux-Windows-tvOS-macOS-Interactive-Audio-Platform

🇸Superpowered Audio, Networking and Cryptographics SDKs. High performance and cross platform on Android, iOS, macOS, tvOS, Linux, Windows and modern web browsers.

Stack

C++ Android Flutter React React Native Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#aes #android #audio #cpp #cryptography #fft

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-05-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

1,444

stars

Forks: 288
Commits: 136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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apache/cloudberry

One advanced and mature open-source MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database. Open source alternative to Greenplum Database.

Stack

C pytest Starlette CMake Maven Meson

GitHub topics

#ai #big-data #c #cloudberry #data-analysis #data-warehouse

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1996-07-09
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 251 open

1,423

stars

Forks: 260
Commits: 78,254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

miguelfreitas/twister-core

twister core / daemon

Stack

C++ CMake pip

Updated: 2024-01-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-30
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 173 open

1,404

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 5,092 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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nasa/astrobee

NASA Astrobee Robot Software

Stack

C++ CMake pip

Updated: 2025-12-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-31
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 31 open

1,404

stars

Forks: 377
Commits: 553 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wheremyfoodat/Panda3DS

HLE 3DS emulator

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#3ds #android #arm #c-plus-plus #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-09-15
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 67 open

1,404

stars

Forks: 90
Commits: 2,528 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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gerbera/gerbera

UPnP Media Server for 2026: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

Stack

C++ Express CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #dlna #dlna-server #duktape #flac

Updated: 2026-09-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 55 open

1,394

stars

Forks: 225
Commits: 6,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hapostgres/pg_auto_failover

Postgres extension and service for automated failover and high-availability

Stack

C CMake Meson npm

GitHub topics

#auto-failover #high-availability #postgres #postgresql #postgresql-extension

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-02
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 111 open

1,392

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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GCWing/BitFun

BitFun is a desktop-grade Agent runtimeand a ready-to-use suite of desktop Agent applications.with built-in Code Agent 、 Cowork Agent、Computer Use. It has memory, personality, and the ability to evolve over time

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum Fastify React Tauri Cargo CMake npm

GitHub topics

#agent-teams #agentic #agentic-os #agentic-runtime #ai-coding #ai-ide

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 63 open

1,390

stars

Forks: 162
Commits: 2,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openbabel/openbabel

Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #chemical-data #chemical-toolbox #cheminformatics #chemistry

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-11-27
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 579 open

1,386

stars

Forks: 487
Commits: 6,625 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NVIDIA/VideoProcessingFramework

Set of Python bindings to C++ libraries which provides full HW acceleration for video decoding, encoding and GPU-accelerated color space and pixel format conversions

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake npm PEP 517

Updated: 2024-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-13
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 70 open

1,379

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

jd-opensource/xllm

A high-performance inference engine for LLM, VLM, DiT and REC models, optimized for diverse AI accelerators.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#deepseek #glm #inference #inference-engine #large-language-models #llm-inference

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-08-13
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 162 open

1,370

stars

Forks: 240
Commits: 1,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

alibaba/rtp-llm

RTP-LLM: Alibaba's high-performance LLM inference engine for diverse applications.

AI dev

Stack

Python React Spring Boot Vite Bundler CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#gpt #inference #llama #llm #llm-serving #llmops

Updated: 2026-10-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-27
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 238 open

1,362

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 4,839 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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BlueBubblesApp/bluebubbles-app

A cross-platform app ecosystem, bringing iMessage to Android, PC (Windows, Linux, & even macOS), and Web!

AI dev

Stack

Dart Android Flutter Shelf CMake CocoaPods Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#android #bluebubbles #client #cross-platform #dart #flutter

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-21
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 210 open

1,360

stars

Forks: 303
Commits: 7,479 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

googleprojectzero/TinyInst

A lightweight dynamic instrumentation library

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 11 open

1,359

stars

Forks: 143
Commits: 288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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hyprwm/hyprpaper

Hyprpaper is a wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp20 #wallpaper #wayland #wlroots

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-01
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 51 open

1,349

stars

Forks: 110
Commits: 236 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

inspircd/inspircd

A high-performance Internet Relay Chat (IRCv3) server for UNIX-like and Windows systems

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #inspircd #internet-relay-chat #irc #irc-protocol #irc-server

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2003-01-23
History: 8 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 112 open

1,348

stars

Forks: 286
Commits: 17,651 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

adamyaxley/Obfuscate

Guaranteed compile-time string literal obfuscation header-only library for C++14

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cpp14 #cpp17 #embedded-string-literals #header-only #obfuscate #obfuscate-strings

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-15
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 2 open

1,345

stars

Forks: 188
Commits: 90 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

hydrogen-music/hydrogen

The advanced drum machine for Linux, macOS, and Windows

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest Qt CMake Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#audio #drum-machine #jack #midi #music #qt

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-06-18
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 131 open

1,335

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 10,037 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ratwithacompiler/OBS-captions-plugin

Closed Captioning OBS plugin using Google Speech Recognition

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-13
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 84 open

1,333

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

WinDurango/WinDurango

The world's first Xbox One compatibility layer for Windows.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK vcpkg

GitHub topics

#compatibility-layer #emulation #windurango #xb1 #xbox-one

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-24
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,329

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 266 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sist2app/sist2

Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool

Stack

C Vite Vue CMake npm vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c #elasticsearch #sqlite #vuejs

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

1,320

stars

Forks: 80
Commits: 1,010 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

CE-Programming/CEmu

Third-party TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE emulator, focused on developer features

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#calculator #emulation #emulator #ez80 #ti-83-premium-ce #ti-84-plus-ce

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-11-13
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

1,319

stars

Forks: 93
Commits: 2,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nba-emu/NanoBoyAdvance

A cycle-accurate Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator.

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#cycle-accurate #emulator #emulator-development #gameboy-advance #gameboy-advance-emulator #gba

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-15
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

1,307

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 1,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skylersaleh/SkyEmu

Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and DS Emulator

AI dev

Stack

C Android pytest CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #gameboy #gameboy-advance #gameboy-color #gameboy-emulator

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-05-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 250 open

1,301

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 1,094 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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