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C++ projects on GitHub
High-performance systems language with manual memory control, used in games, engines, and infrastructure.
As of , the most-starred C++ projects on GitHub are tensorflow (201.1K stars), llama.cpp (131.4K stars) and react-native (126.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 418 C++ repositories with 7.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was AnyPS5, with +1.1K stars in a day.
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+1.1KAnyPS5
boykopovar/AnyPS5 · ★ 40.1KAnyPS5 is a tool that automatically ports PS5 executables so they run natively on Linux and Windows, without emulation.
+718Strata
Niko1221/Strata · ★ 26.4KStrata runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter AI model, on a normal gaming PC with one NVIDIA GPU (12-24GB VRAM) and 64GB of RAM, with a one-click installer for Windows and Linux.
+298uncharted_pc
Supermedo/uncharted_pc · ★ 1KThis is a native Windows port of 'Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection', letting the original PS4 game code for Uncharted 1, 2 and 3 run directly on PC with the graphics translated to Vulkan.
+292gow3_pc
FelipePrado0/gow3_pc · ★ 2.9KA Windows (and experimental Linux) port of God of War III Remastered, a PlayStation 4 game, that lets you run your own legally-owned copy of the game on a PC with a launcher, in-game menu, cheats and performance patches.
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#1 · tensorflow/tensorflowtensorflow
TensorFlow is an open source machine learning platform for building and deploying ML-powered applications.
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#2 · ggml-org/llama.cppllama.cpp
llama.cpp is a plain C/C++ implementation for running LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance, either locally or in the cloud.
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#3 · react/react-nativereact-native
React Native lets you build native mobile apps for Android, iOS, and other platforms using React. UI is described in JavaScript but rendered with real native platform components, not a webview.
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electron
123.4Kelectron/electron · C++Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is based on Node.js and Chromium and is used by apps like Visual Studio Code.
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godot
118.5Kgodotengine/godot · C++Godot is a free, cross-platform game engine for creating both 2D and 3D games from one unified editor, with a comprehensive set of built-in tools.
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terminal
105.2Kmicrosoft/terminal · C++This is the source code for Windows Terminal, a modern tab-based terminal app for Windows, plus the original Windows console host (conhost.exe) that powers classic command-line apps, both maintained in the same repo.
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opencv
91.2Kopencv/opencv · C++OpenCV is a widely used open-source library for computer vision, image processing, and machine learning, offering tools for tasks like object detection, video analysis, and camera calibration.
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bitcoin
90.4Kbitcoin/bitcoin · C++Bitcoin Core is the reference client for the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network: it connects to that network to download and fully validate every block and transaction. It also ships an optional wallet and graphical user interface.
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gpt4all
77.4Knomic-ai/gpt4all · C++GPT4All is a desktop application that runs large language models privately on everyday laptops and desktops, with no API calls or GPU required.
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tesseract
77Ktesseract-ocr/tesseract · C++Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.
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imgui
76.7Kocornut/imgui · C++Dear ImGui is a bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++ that outputs optimized vertex buffers you render in your own 3D-pipeline-enabled application. It is aimed at tooling, debug UIs, and visualization rather than end-user application UIs.
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protobuf
72.1Kprotocolbuffers/protobuf · C++Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data, similar to XML but smaller, faster, and simpler.
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ladybird
66.5KLadybirdBrowser/ladybird · C++Ladybird is a truly independent web browser built on its own novel engine designed around web standards.
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ImHex
55.4KWerWolv/ImHex · C++ImHex is a hex editor built for reverse engineers, programmers, and anyone analyzing binary data, with a custom pattern language for parsing and highlighting file structures.
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whisper.cpp
54.4Kggml-org/whisper.cpp · C++whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model, letting you transcribe audio to text without Python or heavy ML frameworks.
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json
50.8Knlohmann/json · C++A JSON library for Modern C++ (nlohmann/json) that lets you read, create, and manipulate JSON values with intuitive, STL-like syntax directly in C++ code.
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ClickHouse
50.5KClickHouse/ClickHouse · C++ClickHouse is an open-source column-oriented database management system for generating analytical data reports in real time.
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x64dbg
49.9Kx64dbg/x64dbg · C++x64dbg is an open-source user-mode debugger for Windows, built specifically for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
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TrafficMonitor
46.6Kzhongyang219/TrafficMonitor · C++TrafficMonitor is a floating desktop widget for Windows that shows your current network speed, CPU usage, and memory usage in real time, with optional taskbar embedding and skins.
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grpc
45.4Kgrpc/grpc · C++gRPC is a modern, high-performance open-source RPC (remote procedure call) framework that lets client and server applications communicate transparently across languages and platforms.
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CppCoreGuidelines
45.4Kisocpp/CppCoreGuidelines · CSSThe C++ Core Guidelines are a collaborative set of best-practice rules for writing modern C++ (C++11 and later), covering interfaces, resource management, memory management, and concurrency, with the goal of making code type-safe, leak-free, and fast.
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desktop
45Kzen-browser/desktop · C++Zen is a desktop web browser built on top of Firefox, focused on making you more productive — its tagline is 'Welcome to a calmer internet'.
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CPlusPlusThings
43.5KLight-City/CPlusPlusThings · C++A Chinese-language repository (also partly in English) that walks C++ learners from basics to advanced topics: core language features, C++11/14/17/20, STL internals, design patterns, and concurrency, all backed by runnable code examples.
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aria2
43.1Karia2/aria2 · C++aria2 is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line download utility that fetches files over HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, and can combine multiple protocols/sources for the same file to maximize bandwidth.
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Sunshine
42.3KLizardByte/Sunshine · C++Sunshine is a self-hosted game streaming host that lets you play PC games remotely using any Moonlight client, with hardware-accelerated encoding on AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPUs (or software encoding as a fallback).
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duckdb
42.2Kduckdb/duckdb · C++DuckDB is a high-performance analytical SQL database system, designed to be fast, reliable, portable and easy to use, with a rich SQL dialect that goes far beyond basic SQL.
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BitNet
41.2Kmicrosoft/BitNet · C++bitnet.cpp is Microsoft's official inference framework for 1-bit (ternary, 1.58-bit) large language models like BitNet b1.58, letting them run fast on CPUs and GPUs.
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faiss
41.2Kfacebookresearch/faiss · C++Faiss is a library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors, developed primarily at Meta's Fundamental AI Research group. It can search collections of vectors of any size, even ones that do not fit in RAM.
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qBittorrent
40.9Kqbittorrent/qBittorrent · C++qBittorrent is a free, open-source BitTorrent client written in C++ with Qt, built on top of the libtorrent engine. It aims to be a solid alternative to other torrent clients, focusing on speed, stability, and Unicode support.
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aseprite
40.2Kaseprite/aseprite · C++Aseprite is a program for creating animated sprites and pixel art, with dedicated tools for layers, frames, color modes, and frame-by-frame animation.
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AnyPS5
40.1Kboykopovar/AnyPS5 · C++AnyPS5 is a tool that automatically ports PS5 executables so they run natively on Linux and Windows, without emulation.
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googletest
39.6Kgoogle/googletest · C++Google's testing and mocking framework for C++, built on the xUnit architecture. It merges the formerly separate GoogleTest and GoogleMock projects, which Google now maintains and releases together.
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leveldb
39.5Kgoogle/leveldb · C++LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values, supporting Put, Get, Delete and range iteration.
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Hyprland
38.9Khyprwm/Hyprland · C++Hyprland is an independent, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor for Linux that focuses on both usability and visual polish, with gradient borders, blur, animations, shadows and glow built in.
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interview
38.2Khuihut/interview · C++A large Chinese-language knowledge base summarizing core C/C++ interview topics — language features, STL, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, databases, design patterns, and the linker/loader — aimed at students and job seekers preparing for C/C++ technical interviews.
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mediapipe
37.3Kgoogle-ai-edge/mediapipe · C++Google's open-source, cross-platform toolkit for on-device machine learning in live and streaming media: ready-made libraries and pre-trained models you plug straight into your own app.
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btop
35Karistocratos/btop · C++A terminal resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. It is the C++ version and continuation of bashtop and bpytop.
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C-Plus-Plus
34.8KTheAlgorithms/C-Plus-Plus · C++This is TheAlgorithms/C-Plus-Plus, an open-source collection of algorithm implementations in C++ covering computer science, mathematics, machine learning, and physics, built as a learning resource rather than for production use.
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caffe
34.6KBVLC/caffe · C++Caffe is a deep learning framework focused on expression, speed and modularity, built by Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) and the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) with community contributors.
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openpose
34.5KCMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose · C++OpenPose is a real-time multi-person keypoint detection library: it detects 135 body, hand, face, and foot keypoints from images and video - the first system to detect all four jointly in real time.
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FreeCAD
34.4KFreeCAD/FreeCAD · C++FreeCAD is a free, open-source 3D parametric modeler for designing real-life objects of any size, from mechanical parts to architecture.
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WSL
34.1Kmicrosoft/WSL · C++Windows Subsystem for Linux: a way to run Linux command-line tools, utilities and applications unmodified, directly on Windows, without the overhead of a traditional VM or a dual-boot setup.
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carbon-lang
33.9Kcarbon-language/carbon-lang · C++An experimental successor language to C++: C++-level performance, seamless interop with existing C++ code, and modern, safer foundations. This repo holds its documents, design, and toolchain implementation.
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serenity
33.9KSerenityOS/serenity · C++SerenityOS is a graphical Unix-like operating system for 64-bit x86, Arm, and RISC-V computers, built entirely from scratch.
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shadPS4
33.6Kshadps4-emu/shadPS4 · C++shadPS4 is an early PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD, written in C++. It lets you run real PS4 game titles on a PC.
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tdesktop
33.3Ktelegramdesktop/tdesktop · C++This is Telegram Desktop, the official desktop client of the Telegram messenger. The repository holds its complete source code and build instructions, written in C++.
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Proton
33.1KValveSoftware/Proton · C++Proton is a compatibility tool for the Steam client that lets games exclusive to Windows run on Linux. It is based on Wine plus additional components.
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FinceptTerminal
32.6KFincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal · C++Fincept Terminal is a free, open-source desktop finance terminal in the spirit of a Bloomberg terminal: institutional-grade market analytics, AI research agents and trading tools combined in one application.
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QtScrcpy
32.4Kbarry-ran/QtScrcpy · C++QtScrcpy is a desktop app that displays and controls your Android phone's screen on your computer in real time, over USB or WiFi, without needing root access.
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rocksdb
32.2Kfacebook/rocksdb · C++RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage, built as a C++ library and developed by Facebook's Database Engineering team.
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dragonfly
31.8Kdragonflydb/dragonfly · C++An in-memory data store built as a modern replacement for Redis and Memcached — fully compatible with both APIs, so no code changes needed; it claims 25X more throughput on up to 80% fewer resources.
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xiaozhi-esp32
31.3K78/xiaozhi-esp32 · C++XiaoZhi is an open-source firmware for ESP32 chips that turns a cheap microcontroller board into a voice-driven AI chatbot, using MCP to let the AI control devices and cloud services.
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flameshot
31.2Kflameshot-org/flameshot · C++Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool: capture a screen region, annotate it in a built-in editor, then save it, copy it or share it online.
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folly
30.6Kfacebook/folly · C++Folly (Facebook Open Source Library) is a library of C++20 components built for practicality and efficiency, used extensively at Facebook and often a dependency of its other open-source C++ projects.
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deskflow
29.8Kdeskflow/deskflow · C++A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.
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spdlog
29.7Kgabime/spdlog · C++spdlog is a very fast C++ logging library. It ships header-only or as a compiled library, and its message formatting is powered by the fmt library.
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notepad-plus-plus
29.6Knotepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus · C++Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows that supports several programming languages and natural languages.
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phantomjs
29.4Kariya/phantomjs · C++PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript: a real browser engine that loads and manipulates web pages without any visible browser window.
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srs
29.3Kossrs/srs · C++SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.
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keepassxc
29.3Kkeepassxreboot/keepassxc · C++KeePassXC is a modern, secure, open-source password manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It keeps usernames, passwords, URLs, attachments, and notes in one offline, encrypted database file.
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envoy
29.1Kenvoyproxy/envoy · C++Envoy is a cloud-native, high-performance proxy for edge, middle, and service-to-service traffic. It is an open-source project hosted by the CNCF.
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xgboost
28.9Kdmlc/xgboost · C++XGBoost is an optimized distributed gradient boosting library designed to be highly efficient, flexible and portable — it implements machine learning algorithms under the Gradient Boosting framework.
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mlx
28.8Kml-explore/mlx · C++MLX is an array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon, built by Apple's machine learning research team.
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mongo
28.6Kmongodb/mongo · C++MongoDB, a widely used NoSQL database. This repo is the database itself: mongod is the server process that stores your data, and mongos is its sharding router.
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taichi
28.4Ktaichi-dev/taichi · C++Taichi Lang is an open-source language for high-performance GPU programming embedded in Python: you write Python-like code and its JIT compiler turns it into efficient parallel GPU or CPU machine code.
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emscripten
27.7Kemscripten-core/emscripten · C++Emscripten is an open-source compiler that turns C and C++ code into WebAssembly using LLVM and Binaryen, so native codebases can run on the Web, in Node.js, and in other wasm runtimes.
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rethinkdb
27Krethinkdb/rethinkdb · C++RethinkDB is an open-source, distributed NoSQL database built for realtime web applications; instead of making your app poll for changes, it pushes updated query results straight to you.
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typesense
27Ktypesense/typesense · C++An open-source, typo-tolerant in-memory search engine for building fast search experiences — a self-hostable Algolia alternative and an easier-to-use Elasticsearch alternative.
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apollo
26.9KApolloAuto/apollo · C++An open autonomous driving platform from Baidu: a high-performance, flexible software stack covering perception, prediction, planning and control, for developing, testing and deploying self-driving vehicles.
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DeepSpeech
26.8Kmozilla/DeepSpeech · C++Mozilla DeepSpeech is an open-source Speech-To-Text engine — a machine-learning model that turns audio into text on your own hardware.
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flatbuffers
26.6Kgoogle/flatbuffers · C++FlatBuffers is a cross-platform serialization library built for maximum memory efficiency: you read serialized data directly without a parsing/unpacking step, and it keeps forwards/backwards compatibility.
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fastText
26.5Kfacebookresearch/fastText · HTMLfastText is a library from Facebook Research for efficiently learning word vector representations and training text classifiers, such as for sentiment analysis.
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winget-cli
26.5Kmicrosoft/winget-cli · C++WinGet is the Windows Package Manager client - a tool for quickly discovering and installing the packages that make your PC environment special, straight from the command line.
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Strata
26.4KNiko1221/Strata · C++Strata runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a 125-billion-parameter AI model, on a normal gaming PC with one NVIDIA GPU (12-24GB VRAM) and 64GB of RAM, with a one-click installer for Windows and Linux.
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llamafile
26.4Kmozilla-ai/llamafile · C++llamafile turns open LLMs into single-file executables: one file that runs a chat model locally on most operating systems and CPU architectures, with no installation. It is a Mozilla Builders project, now revamped by Mozilla.ai.
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modern-cpp-tutorial
25.9Kchangkun/modern-cpp-tutorial · C++A free book teaching modern C++ features from C++11 through C++26, written for people who already know traditional C++ (C++98 or earlier) and want a fast way to learn the new stuff.
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fmt
25.9Kfmtlib/fmt · C++{fmt} is an open-source C++ formatting library — a fast, safe alternative to C stdio and C++ iostreams, with a format string syntax similar to Python's.
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solidity
25.8Kargotorg/solidity · C++Solidity is a statically-typed, contract-oriented language for implementing smart contracts on Ethereum — programs that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine inside a peer-to-peer network where nobody has special authority over execution.
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v8
25.3Kv8/v8 · C++V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine, written in C++. This repository is the official mirror of the V8 Git repository.
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chromium
25Kchromium/chromiumThe official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source code — the open-source browser project that aims to make the web safer, faster and more stable for all users.
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sqlitebrowser
24.7Ksqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser · C++DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a visual, open-source tool for creating, designing, and editing SQLite database files, using a spreadsheet-like interface instead of raw SQL commands.
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simdjson
24.4Ksimdjson/simdjson · C++A C++ library that parses JSON at gigabytes-per-second speed using SIMD instructions and microparallel algorithms. It ships in production systems like Node.js, ClickHouse and Meta Velox.
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tinyrenderer
24.4Kssloy/tinyrenderer · C++This is 'tinyrenderer' — a hands-on computer-graphics course that walks you through writing a software 3D renderer from scratch in about 500 lines of C++, so you understand how OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX actually work under the hood.
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Paddle
24.1KPaddlePaddle/Paddle · C++PaddlePaddle is an open-source deep learning platform — China's first independently developed one, open-sourced since 2016 — spanning a core framework, model libraries, end-to-end dev kits and service platforms.
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ncnn
24KTencent/ncnn · C++ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework built by Tencent and optimized for mobile, embedded, and desktop deployment. It is used in Tencent apps like QQ, Qzone, and WeChat to run deep learning models on-device.
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brave-browser
23.9Kbrave/brave-browserThis is the companion repo Brave Software uses to track issues, publish releases, and host the wiki for Brave Browser, a Chromium-based browser available on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It is not the browser's source code repository.
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MaaAssistantArknights
23.8KMaaAssistantArknights/MaaAssistantArknights · C++MAA (MAA Assistant Arknights) is a free, open-source assistant for the mobile game Arknights: it uses image recognition to complete all your daily tasks in one click.
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osquery
23.7Kosquery/osquery · C++osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics framework: it exposes your OS as a high-performance relational database you can query with SQL.
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jdk
23.4Kopenjdk/jdk · JavaThis is the official main-line development repository of the JDK — the Java Development Kit — where future releases of Java are developed in the OpenJDK project.
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RedisDesktopManager
23.2Kredis/RedisDesktopManager · C++RESP.app, formerly known as RedisDesktopManager, is a GUI for Redis — a desktop client for working visually with Redis databases.
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learnopencv
23.2Kspmallick/learnopencv · Jupyter NotebookThis is the companion code repository for the LearnOpenCV.com blog, containing C++ and Python examples that accompany articles on computer vision, deep learning, and AI research.
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Karabiner-Elements
23Kpqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements · C++Karabiner-Elements is a powerful key remapper for macOS — a tool for customizing how your keyboard behaves.
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video2x
22.3Kk4yt3x/video2x · C++Video2X is an open-source video super resolution and frame interpolation tool: it uses machine learning to upscale low-resolution videos to higher quality and to add interpolated frames for smoother motion.
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smartknob
22.2Kscottbez1/smartknob · C++SmartKnob is an open-source haptic input device that pairs a brushless gimbal motor with a magnetic encoder to create closed-loop torque feedback, letting you program virtual detents and endstops in software instead of mechanically.
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onnxruntime
22.1Kmicrosoft/onnxruntime · C++ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform, high performance ML accelerator for inference and training. It runs models from PyTorch, TensorFlow/Keras and classical ML libraries like scikit-learn, LightGBM and XGBoost.
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helium
21.6Kimputnet/helium · C++Helium is a Chromium-based web browser built for privacy: unbiased ad-blocking out of the box, no bloat and no noise. It is free, open source, and currently in beta.
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Catch2
21.5Kcatchorg/Catch2 · C++Catch2 is a unit testing framework for C++ that also provides basic micro-benchmarking features and simple BDD macros.
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The-Art-Of-Programming-By-July-2nd
21.5Kjulycoding/The-Art-Of-Programming-By-July-2nd · CThis is a Chinese book-and-notes repository on programming interview questions, algorithms and data structures, originally a blog series that grew into the published book '编程之法:面试和算法心得' (The Art of Programming). It also bundles machine learning notes (SVM, CNN, RNN/LSTM, BERT, ChatGPT) collected from the author's other blog series.
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CnC_Remastered_Collection
21.4Kelectronicarts/CnC_Remastered_Collection · C++Source code release for the DLLs and Map Editor that power the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection (Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert), published by EA for community modding.
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xbmc
21.3Kxbmc/xbmc · C++Kodi is a free and open source media player and entertainment hub: one app that organizes and plays your movies, music, and photos, built to turn any computer into a home theater.
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