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VowpalWabbit/vowpal_wabbit

Vowpal Wabbit is a machine learning system which pushes the frontier of machine learning with techniques such as online, hashing, allreduce, reductions, learning2search, active, and interactive learning.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK npm

GitHub topics

#active-learning #c-plus-plus #contextual-bandits #cpp #learning-to-search #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-04-29
History: 147 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 0 open

8,731

stars

Forks: 1,923
Commits: 10,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

brndnmtthws/conky

Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland, and other things, too

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js React Tailwind CSS Bun CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cairo #conky #imlib2 #linux #lua

Updated: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-07-20
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 95 open

8,493

stars

Forks: 668
Commits: 4,652 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend

AI dev

Stack

C++ Express pytest CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #cpp17 #isochrones #map-matching #openstreetmap

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-07-09
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 366 open

8,126

stars

Forks: 3,976
Commits: 9,072 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

endless-sky/endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d-game #adventure-game #arcade-game #c-plus-plus #cpp #endless-sky

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 918 open

7,552

stars

Forks: 1,309
Commits: 9,953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenShot/openshot-qt

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #gplv3 #openshot #python #qt5

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-11-03
History: 12 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 431 open

6,626

stars

Forks: 818
Commits: 5,705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

OpenMW/openmw

OpenMW is an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind. Main repo and issue tracker can be found here: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/

Stack

C++ Qt CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #foss #morrowind #open-source #openmw #rpg-engine

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-06-22
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

6,560

stars

Forks: 1,112
Commits: 38,750 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gnuradio/gnuradio

GNU Radio – the Free and Open Software Radio Ecosystem

Stack

C++ pytest Qt CMake Conan pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cybersecurity #dsp #flowgraph #gnu #gnuradio

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-08-03
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 616 open

6,291

stars

Forks: 2,170
Commits: 16,048 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CGAL/cgal

The public CGAL repository, see the README below

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#algorithms #arrange #boolean-operations #c-plus-plus #cgal #computational-geometry

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1995-08-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 661 open

6,078

stars

Forks: 1,596
Commits: 117,719 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pbek/QOwnNotes

QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt Vite Vue CMake Composer npm

GitHub topics

#bookmark #c-plus-plus #caldav #chrome-extension #dropbox #firefox-extension

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-29
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 67 open

5,886

stars

Forks: 500
Commits: 10,864 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vcmi/vcmi

Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Conan Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #game #ios

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-28
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 689 open

5,851

stars

Forks: 684
Commits: 24,578 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nodegit/nodegit

Native Node bindings to Git.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #electron #git #javascript #js #libgit2

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 367 open

5,750

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 4,053 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mlpack/mlpack

mlpack: a fast, header-only C++ machine learning library

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #deep-learning #machine-learning #machine-learning-library #nearest-neighbor-search #regression

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-03-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 15 open

5,713

stars

Forks: 1,725
Commits: 30,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Ardour/ardour

Mirror of Ardour Source Code

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #daw #jack #lv2 #midi

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-13
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

5,290

stars

Forks: 967
Commits: 43,638 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

panda3d/panda3d

Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU

Stack

C++ pytest CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #game-development #game-engine #gamedev #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2000-10-04
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 367 open

5,219

stars

Forks: 890
Commits: 26,805 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

amhndu/SimpleNES

An NES emulator in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #emulator #nes-emulator #sfml

Updated: 2025-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,109

stars

Forks: 1,126
Commits: 187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

gameplay3d/gameplay

Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #engine #open-source #vulkan

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-16
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

4,933

stars

Forks: 1,310
Commits: 4,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kaitai-io/kaitai_struct

Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby / Rust

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #csharp #declarative-language #file-format #go

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-20
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 531 open

4,697

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 1,049 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapbox/mapbox-gl-native

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

Archived

Stack

C++ Android Express CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #geojson #ios #java #macos

Updated: 2023-07-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-07
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 312 open

4,457

stars

Forks: 1,319
Commits: 15,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +1 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nuttyartist/notes

Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #gui #local-first #markdown #note-managment

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-25
History: 9 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 137 open

4,268

stars

Forks: 384
Commits: 1,288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

clementine-player/Clementine

:tangerine: Clementine Music Player

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #linux #mac #music #qt #windows

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-24
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2,442 open

4,251

stars

Forks: 730
Commits: 8,416 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

spring/spring

A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. - Report issues at https://springrts.com/mantis/

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #lua #opengl #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2024-03-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

3,992

stars

Forks: 866
Commits: 28,426 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapnik/mapnik

Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#beautiful-maps #c-plus-plus #cartography #gis #mapnik #mapping

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2005-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 734 open

3,967

stars

Forks: 835
Commits: 14,443 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Warzone2100/warzone2100

Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #campaign #cheats #cmake #freebsd #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-01-18
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 609 open

3,950

stars

Forks: 615
Commits: 22,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MTG/essentia

C++ library for audio and music analysis, description and synthesis, including Python bindings

Stack

C++ PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-analysis #c-plus-plus #dsp #essentia #music

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-06-03
History: 10 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 439 open

3,772

stars

Forks: 639
Commits: 3,791 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

rdkit/rdkit

The official sources for the RDKit library

Stack

HTML CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cheminformatics #python #rdkit

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-05-06
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 103 open

3,607

stars

Forks: 1,072
Commits: 8,663 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Haivision/srt

Secure, Reliable, Transport

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #live-streaming #low-latency #multimedia #srt #transport

Updated: 2026-09-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-21
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 365 open

3,603

stars

Forks: 942
Commits: 2,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nullptrlabs/pgmodeler

Open-source data modeling tool designed for PostgreSQL. No more typing DDL commands. Let pgModeler do the work for you!

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #code-generator #database #database-modeling #ddl-commands #entity-relationship-diagram

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-23
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 285 open

3,599

stars

Forks: 424
Commits: 6,989 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aeron-io/simple-binary-encoding

Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) - High Performance Message Codec

Stack

Java Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #codec #encoder-decoder #golang #java

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-03
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 36 open

3,506

stars

Forks: 601
Commits: 4,097 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

SuperTux/supertux

SuperTux source code

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #games #opengl #sdl #sdl3

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-09
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 375 open

3,168

stars

Forks: 619
Commits: 14,676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bombomby/optick

C++ Profiler For Games

Stack

C# CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #games #performance #profiler

Updated: 2024-05-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 85 open

3,160

stars

Forks: 314
Commits: 573 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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