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ocornut/imgui

Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#api #cplusplus #framework #game-development #game-engine #gamedev

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2014-07-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,229 open

76,165

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Forks: 12,030
Commits: 10,086 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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conan-io/conan

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #conan #cplusplus #cpp #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 476 open

9,534

stars

Forks: 1,134
Commits: 9,971 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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BoomingTech/Piccolo

Piccolo (formerly Pilot) – mini game engine for games104

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #game-development #game-engine #imgui #physics

Updated: 2024-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

6,731

stars

Forks: 1,975
Commits: 204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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apache/mesos

Apache Mesos

AI dev

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cloud #cplusplus #mesos

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-04-27
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

5,365

stars

Forks: 1,654
Commits: 18,448 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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google/open-location-code

Open Location Code is a library to generate short codes, called "plus codes", that can be used as digital addresses where street addresses don't exist.

Stack

Java Android Bundler Cargo Dart Pub

GitHub topics

#c #cplusplus #dart #geo #golang #gps

Updated: 2026-03-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-10-27
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,364

stars

Forks: 532
Commits: 793 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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facebookresearch/habitat-sim

A flexible, high-performance 3D simulator for Embodied AI research.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#ai #computer-vision #cplusplus #robotics #sim2real #simulator

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-02-26
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 268 open

3,819

stars

Forks: 548
Commits: 1,664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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OpenXRay/xray-16

Improved version of the X-Ray Engine, the game engine used in the world-famous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series by GSC Game World. Join OpenXRay! ;)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #arm64 #cmake #cplusplus #cpp17 #d3d11

Updated: 2026-10-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-09-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 291 open

3,575

stars

Forks: 550
Commits: 8,570 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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AtomicGameEngine/AtomicGameEngine

The Atomic Game Engine is a multi-platform 2D and 3D engine with a consistent API in C++, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #cplusplus #csharp #game-development #game-engine #ios

Updated: 2024-03-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-24
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 394 open

3,483

stars

Forks: 589
Commits: 3,398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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DescentDevelopers/Descent3

Descent 3 by Outrage Entertainment

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #game-engine

Updated: 2026-01-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-04-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

3,005

stars

Forks: 285
Commits: 1,603 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pencil2d/pencil

Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#animation #bitmap #cartoon #cplusplus #drawing #graphics2d

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 209 open

1,806

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 5,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gbdev/rgbds

Rednex Game Boy Development System - An assembly toolchain for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#asm #assembly #assembly-language #assembly-sm83 #cplusplus #game-boy

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-11
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 88 open

1,657

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 3,773 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ObEngine/ObEngine

2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML !

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #2d-framework #2d-game-engine #2d-game-framework #cmake #collider

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-28
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 124 open

865

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 1,561 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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AlSch092/UltimateAntiCheat

UltimateAnticheat is an open source usermode anti-cheat system made to detect and prevent common attack vectors in game cheating (C++, Windows)

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#anti-cheat #anti-debugging #anticheat #code-integrity #cplusplus #game-cheat

Updated: 2026-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-07
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

652

stars

Forks: 91
Commits: 1,060 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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SouravRoy-ETL/slothdb

An experimental embedded SQL engine in C++20. Query Parquet, CSV, JSON, Arrow, Avro, SQLite, and Excel files directly with SQL, in-process. Early-stage.

Stack

C++ CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#analytics #arrow #avro #columnar-database #cplusplus #cpp

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-04-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 5 open

412

stars

Forks: 6
Commits: 573 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

khrykin/StrategrDesktop

No-Fuss Time Management App

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp17 #cross-platform #productivity #qt5 #time-management

Updated: 2025-06-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-05-10
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 16 open

349

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 227 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kmhofmann/selene

A C++17 image representation, processing and I/O library.

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #cpp11 #cpp14 #cpp17 #image

Updated: 2022-08-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-19
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

312

stars

Forks: 18
Commits: 487 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ABRG-Models/morphologica

C++ header-only graphing and data visualization with Modern OpenGL

Archived

Stack

C++ Bundler CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #cplusplus #cplusplus-17 #data-visualization #graphics

Updated: 2025-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-19
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

307

stars

Forks: 39
Commits: 4,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

shaka-project/shaka-player-embedded

Shaka Player in a C++ Framework

Archived

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #dash #drm #encrypted-media #hls #ios

Updated: 2024-02-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-15
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 99 open

238

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Is-Daouda/is-Engine

C++, SDL 2 and SFML game engine that allows to create games on Nintendo Switch, Web (HTML 5), Mobile and PC.

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #android-studio #box-2d #code-blocks #cplusplus #cpp

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-12-29
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 3 open

235

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 191 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

PIYUSH-KUMAR1809/order-matching-engine

High performance order matching engine

Stack

C++ Streamlit CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cplusplus-20 #cpp #cpp20 #finance #hft

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-12-08
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

166

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 45 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Stovent/CeDImu

Experimental Philips CD-I emulator written in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#cd-i #cdi #cplusplus #cpp #emulation #emulator

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-08
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 2
Commits: 914 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kassane/fiber

userland threads uses zig build

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#boost #boost-library #cplusplus #cpp #fibers #zig-package

Updated: 2024-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-09
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 1,959 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kassane/cobalt

Coroutines for C++20 & asio (uses zig build for testing)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#asio #async #boost-libraries #cplusplus #cpp #zig-package

Updated: 2024-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-07-03
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 437 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kassane/outcome

Provides very lightweight outcome<T> and result<T> (non-Boost edition) (uses zig build-system)

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #cpp-library #zig-package

Updated: 2024-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-23
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 2,423 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kassane/benchmark

A microbenchmark support library (uses zig build)

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#benchmark #benchmarking #cplusplus #cpp #zig-package

Updated: 2024-02-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-12-19
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 1,510 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kassane/intrusive

Boost.org intrusive module (uses zig build)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#boost-libraries #cplusplus #cpp #zig-package

Updated: 2023-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-05-04
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 686 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kassane/unordered

Boost.org unordered module (uses zig build)

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#boost-libraries #cplusplus #cpp #zig-package

Updated: 2024-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2002-05-15
History: 6 history points
License: BSL-1.0
Issues: Disabled

stars

Forks: 0
Commits: 2,798 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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