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mapbox/tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #geojson #vector-tiles

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-02-05
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 217 open

3,132

stars

Forks: 428
Commits: 1,796 commits
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easymodo/qimgv

Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #image-viewer #libmpv #linux #qt

Updated: 2026-01-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-18
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 308 open

3,119

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 1,822 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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shogun-toolbox/shogun

Shōgun

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #c-plus-plus #cmake #data-science #machine-learning #swig

Updated: 2023-12-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-06-05
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 424 open

3,082

stars

Forks: 1,035
Commits: 17,589 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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widelands/widelands

Widelands is a free, open source real-time strategy game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode. The game was inspired by Settlers II™ (© Bluebyte) but has significantly more variety and depth to it.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#apple-silicon #bsd #c-plus-plus #cmake #floss #game

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-02-05
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 568 open

3,054

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 27,317 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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eteran/edb-debugger

edb is a cross-platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #capstone #debugger #edb #linux #ollydbg

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-19
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 66 open

2,975

stars

Forks: 346
Commits: 3,409 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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alexbatalov/fallout1-ce

Fallout for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-09
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 136 open

2,911

stars

Forks: 224
Commits: 75 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TASEmulators/BizHawk

BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.

Stack

C# Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #c-sharp #dotnet #emulation #emulator #saturn

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-11
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 817 open

2,786

stars

Forks: 478
Commits: 23,734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

google/earthenterprise

Google Earth Enterprise - Open Source

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#2d-map #3d-globe #c-plus-plus #earth #earth-enterprise #fusion

Updated: 2023-01-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-21
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 252 open

2,750

stars

Forks: 898
Commits: 1,779 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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jlblancoc/nanoflann

nanoflann: a C++11 header-only library for Nearest Neighbor (NN) search with KD-trees

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #kd-trees #nanoflann #point-clouds

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-08-25
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 42 open

2,683

stars

Forks: 526
Commits: 704 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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teeworlds/teeworlds

A retro multiplayer shooter

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #game #linux #macos #multiplayer

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2007-05-22
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 361 open

2,646

stars

Forks: 655
Commits: 6,560 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

xenia-canary/xenia-canary

Xbox 360 Emulator Research Project

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp #d3d12 #emulation #emulator #ppc

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-01-10
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,640

stars

Forks: 337
Commits: 8,802 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Overload-Technologies/Overload

3D game engine with lua scripting

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #3d-graphics #c-plus-plus #cpp #game-editor #game-engine

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 107 open

2,495

stars

Forks: 290
Commits: 620 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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alexbatalov/fallout2-ce

Fallout 2 for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fallout2 #game #isometric

Updated: 2025-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-19
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 134 open

2,421

stars

Forks: 205
Commits: 879 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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strato-emu/strato

Run Nintendo Switch homebrew & games on your Android device!

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #cpp #emulation #emulator #nintendo

Updated: 2024-09-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 30 open

2,348

stars

Forks: 296
Commits: 2,207 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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synfig/synfig

This is the Official source code repository of Synfig Studio animation software

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #animation #c-plus-plus #gtkmm #hacktoberfest #synfig

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-03-21
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 724 open

2,301

stars

Forks: 434
Commits: 12,540 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JACoders/OpenJK

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c #c-plus-plus #fps #game #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-09-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 282 open

2,296

stars

Forks: 727
Commits: 4,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rwengine/openrw

OpenRW "Open ReWrite" is an un-official open source recreation of the classic Grand Theft Auto III game executable

Stack

C++ Qt CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game-engine #gta #gta3 #linux-game #macosx-game

Updated: 2025-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-29
History: 1 history point
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 117 open

2,220

stars

Forks: 198
Commits: 2,016 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenXcom/OpenXcom

Open-source clone of the original X-Com 👽

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #game #openxcom-game #sdl #strategy-game-engine #turn-based-combat

Updated: 2026-06-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-25
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 84 open

2,215

stars

Forks: 579
Commits: 8,414 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#browser #bsd #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-06-04
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 276 open

1,986

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 11,038 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

enzo1982/freac

The fre:ac audio converter project

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#aac #alac #audio #c-plus-plus #cd-ripper #converter

Updated: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-09-22
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 223 open

1,966

stars

Forks: 95
Commits: 2,309 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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baidu/tera

An Internet-Scale Database.

Stack

C++ CMake Maven

GitHub topics

#baidu #bigtable #c-plus-plus #data #database #hbase

Updated: 2024-06-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-03-26
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 172 open

1,904

stars

Forks: 432
Commits: 2,252 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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OpenLoco/OpenLoco

An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #game #hacktoberfest #help-wanted #linux

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-06
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 458 open

1,903

stars

Forks: 220
Commits: 4,217 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mltframework/mlt

MLT Multimedia Framework

AI dev

Stack

C Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-processing #c #c-plus-plus #ffmpeg #framework

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 52 open

1,852

stars

Forks: 387
Commits: 6,773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dealii/dealii

The development repository for the deal.II finite element library

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #fem #finite-elements #hpc #kokkos #parallel-computing

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-11-24
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 534 open

1,738

stars

Forks: 869
Commits: 68,359 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bwapi/bwapi

Brood War API

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#ai #brood-war-api #broodwar #bwapi #c-plus-plus #game

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 129 open

1,702

stars

Forks: 297
Commits: 2,647 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop

Network file transfer application for Windows, OS X, & Linux

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cross-platform #gui #nitroshare #qhttpengine

Updated: 2025-07-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-09
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 137 open

1,664

stars

Forks: 234
Commits: 1,342 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Xtra-Computing/thundersvm

ThunderSVM: A Fast SVM Library on GPUs and CPUs

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #classification #cuda #gpu #libsvm #one-class-learning

Updated: 2024-04-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-12-11
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 87 open

1,623

stars

Forks: 222
Commits: 912 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenShot/libopenshot

OpenShot Video Library (libopenshot) is a free, open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world. API currently supports C++, Python, and Ruby.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #lgplv3 #openshot #qt5 #video

Updated: 2026-09-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-11
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 51 open

1,571

stars

Forks: 328
Commits: 3,386 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pmp-library/pmp-library

The Polygon Mesh Processing Library

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #curvature #geodesic-distances #geometry-processing #hole-filling-algorithm #mesh-processing

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

1,510

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 1,986 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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