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electron/electron

:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

AI dev

Stack

C++ Vite npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #chrome #css #electron #html #javascript

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-03-13
History: 18 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 735 open

123,360

stars

Forks: 17,618
Commits: 31,363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +93 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +64 +0.2%

Website GitHub

opencv/opencv

Open Source Computer Vision Library

Stack

C++ Starlette CMake Maven pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #deep-learning #image-processing #opencv

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-05-11
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,779 open

90,758

stars

Forks: 57,015
Commits: 37,706 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bitcoin/bitcoin

Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

Stack

C++ Qt Cargo CMake pip

GitHub topics

#bitcoin #c-plus-plus #cryptocurrency #cryptography #p2p

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-08-30
History: 20 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 768 open

90,411

stars

Forks: 39,428
Commits: 51,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +78 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +53 +0.1%

Website GitHub

obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #directshow #facebook-live #ffmpeg #game-capture

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-01
History: 22 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,152 open

77,650

stars

Forks: 10,697
Commits: 15,810 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +382 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +8 +0.1%

Website GitHub

WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#analyzer #binary-analysis #c-plus-plus #cpp #cybersecurity #dark-mode

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-11-10
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 402 open

54,920

stars

Forks: 2,469
Commits: 6,665 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

qbittorrent/qBittorrent

qBittorrent BitTorrent client

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake npm uv

GitHub topics

#bittorrent #bittorrent-client #c-plus-plus #crossplatform #torrent #torrent-client

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2006-09-30
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,700 open

40,279

stars

Forks: 4,883
Commits: 13,939 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aseprite/aseprite

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#animated-sprites #animation #aseprite #c-plus-plus #cpp #draw

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-18
History: 11 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2,005 open

39,601

stars

Forks: 9,063
Commits: 10,697 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google-ai-edge/mediapipe

Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

Stack

C++ Android CocoaPods Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #audio-processing #c-plus-plus #calculator #computer-vision #deep-learning

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-16
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 541 open

36,893

stars

Forks: 6,156
Commits: 5,643 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ossrs/srs

SRS is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, HTTP-TS, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codec support for H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai-driven #audio #c-plus-plus #dash #hevc #hls

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-10-17
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

29,261

stars

Forks: 5,693
Commits: 8,980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser

Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #database #database-browser #database-gui #sqlite

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2003-08-14
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 838 open

24,605

stars

Forks: 2,375
Commits: 4,295 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

xbmc/xbmc

Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #entertainment-hub #hacktoberfest #home-theater #ios

Updated: 2026-09-27
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-23
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 413 open

21,261

stars

Forks: 6,605
Commits: 73,183 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocos2d/cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cocos2d #cocos2d-x #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2025-05-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-06
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1,604 open

19,212

stars

Forks: 7,044
Commits: 37,362 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

NixOS/nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

AI dev

Stack

C++ Meson

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #declarative-language #functional-programming #nix #package-manager

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-03-12
History: 11 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 2,983 open

17,833

stars

Forks: 2,021
Commits: 24,521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #discord #game #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-01
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,483 open

16,201

stars

Forks: 1,895
Commits: 30,608 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

scylladb/scylladb

NoSQL data store using the Seastar framework, compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest Starlette Cargo CMake uv

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cassandra #cpp #database #nosql #scylla

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-10
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,825 open

15,790

stars

Forks: 1,526
Commits: 57,503 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

xournalpp/xournalpp

Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #crossplatform #gtk3 #notes #notetaking #pdf

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-04
History: 44 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,249 open

15,347

stars

Forks: 1,124
Commits: 6,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

textmate/textmate

TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later

Stack

Objective-C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cocoa #macos #objective-c-plus-plus #texteditor #textmate

Updated: 2024-05-18
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-09
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

14,578

stars

Forks: 1,757
Commits: 5,757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

davisking/dlib

A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #deep-learning #dlib #machine-learning #machine-learning-library

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-02
History: 9 history points
License: BSL-1.0
Issues: 38 open

14,454

stars

Forks: 3,438
Commits: 8,382 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFTtech/openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#age-of-empires #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #cpp20 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 215 open

14,426

stars

Forks: 1,265
Commits: 5,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spotify/annoy

Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #c-plus-plus #golang #locality-sensitive-hashing #lua #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2025-10-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 90 open

14,312

stars

Forks: 1,227
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

nmap/nmap

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK PEP 517

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #c-plus-plus #libpcap #linux #lua #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-04-11
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 698 open

13,712

stars

Forks: 2,911
Commits: 13,831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

luanti-org/luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp17 #game-engine #lua #luanti #minetest

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,513 open

13,709

stars

Forks: 2,481
Commits: 13,796 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#autohotkey #automation #c-plus-plus #hotkeys #scripting #scripting-language

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-09
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 11 open

13,300

stars

Forks: 1,192
Commits: 5,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cataclysm #game #hacktoberfest #zombies

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,807 open

13,123

stars

Forks: 4,637
Commits: 129,498 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapeditor/tiled

Flexible level editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #editor #game #game-development #hacktoberfest #java

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-05
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 837 open

12,948

stars

Forks: 1,975
Commits: 7,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFML/SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #games #graphics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 6 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 157 open

12,059

stars

Forks: 1,914
Commits: 3,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #cpp #pcl #point-cloud #pointcloud

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 580 open

11,112

stars

Forks: 4,700
Commits: 14,716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mawww/kakoune

mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #console-application #kakoune #modal-editing #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 8 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 924 open

11,070

stars

Forks: 783
Commits: 11,124 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cs01/gdbgui

Browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Add breakpoints, view the stack, visualize data structures, and more in C, C++, Go, Rust, and Fortran. Run gdbgui from the terminal and a new tab will open in your browser.

Stack

TypeScript Flask React Tailwind CSS Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#browser #c #c-plus-plus #debugger #debugger-visualizer #frontend

Updated: 2025-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-09-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 180 open

10,352

stars

Forks: 521
Commits: 438 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aeron-io/aeron

Efficient reliable UDP unicast, UDP multicast, and IPC message transport

Stack

Java CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #ipc #java #messaging #multicast-streams

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-02-07
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 22 open

8,924

stars

Forks: 1,113
Commits: 19,510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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