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C-plus-plus projects on GitHub

Alternate spelling tag for C++ and its library ecosystem.

As of , the most-starred C-plus-plus projects on GitHub are electron (123.4K stars), opencv (91.2K stars) and bitcoin (90.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 60 C-plus-plus repositories with 1.6M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was ImHex, with +74 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+74

ImHex

WerWolv/ImHex · ★ 55.4K

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.

+56

obs-studio

obsproject/obs-studio · ★ 77.7K

OBS Studio is a free, open-source application for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, mainly aimed at live streaming and screen recording.

+39

Reverse-Engineering

mytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering · ★ 14.8K

A free, massive collection of reverse engineering and hacking tutorials covering x86, x64, ARM (32/64-bit), AVR, RISC-V, Windows internals, malware analysis, embedded systems, Rust, Go, Wasm, and more, delivered as free ebooks/lessons.

+23

awesome-cpp

fffaraz/awesome-cpp · ★ 73.8K

A curated list (awesome-list) of C and C++ frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources, organized by category like AI, audio, networking, GUI, databases, and more.

The all-time top

60 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · electron/electron

    electron

    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.

    123.4K
  2. #2 · opencv/opencv

    opencv

    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.

    91.2K
  3. #3 · bitcoin/bitcoin

    bitcoin

    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.

    90.4K
  1. 4

    obs-studio

    77.7Kobsproject/obs-studio · C

    OBS Studio is a free, open-source application for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, mainly aimed at live streaming and screen recording.

  2. 5

    awesome-cpp

    73.8Kfffaraz/awesome-cpp

    A curated list (awesome-list) of C and C++ frameworks, libraries, tools, and resources, organized by category like AI, audio, networking, GUI, databases, and more.

  3. 6

    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.

  4. 7

    open-source-mac-os-apps

    50.8Kserhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps

    A curated, community-maintained list of open-source macOS applications sorted into categories like Audio, Backup, Browser, Chat, Crypto, Database, Dev, Editors, Graphics, Productivity, and Utilities, currently covering around 710 apps across 49 categories.

  5. 8

    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.

  6. 9

    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.

  7. 10

    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.

  8. 11

    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.

  9. 12

    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.

  10. 13

    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.

  11. 14

    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.

  12. 15

    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.

  13. 16

    cmder

    27Kcmderdev/cmder · PowerShell

    Cmder is a console emulator package for Windows, created out of pure frustration over the lack of a usable console there. It wraps ConEmu with a major config overhaul, a Monokai color scheme, clink and a custom prompt layout.

  14. 17

    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.

  15. 18

    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.

  16. 19

    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.

  17. 20

    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.

  18. 21

    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.

  19. 22

    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.

  20. 23

    qmk_firmware

    20.8Kqmk/qmk_firmware · C

    QMK is an open-source keyboard firmware based on tmk_keyboard, adding features for Atmel AVR and ARM controllers. It is best known for the OLKB product line, the ErgoDox EZ and Clueboard keyboards.

  21. 24

    cocos2d-x

    19.2Kcocos2d/cocos2d-x · C++

    An open-source, cross-platform C++ framework for building 2D games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications — it began as the C++ port of cocos2d-iphone and runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.

  22. 25

    compiler-explorer

    19.1Kcompiler-explorer/compiler-explorer · TypeScript

    An interactive compiler exploration website: edit code in C, C++, Rust, Go or any of 30+ supported languages and see the compiled assembly update in real time. Try it at godbolt.org or self-host.

  23. 26

    abseil-cpp

    18.2Kabseil/abseil-cpp · C++

    Abseil is Google's open-source collection of C++ library code that augments the C++ standard library. It's extracted from Google's internal codebase and includes things like better containers, string utilities, time handling, and synchronization primitives.

  24. 27

    nix

    17.9KNixOS/nix · C++

    Nix is a purely functional package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes installing software reliable and reproducible.

  25. 28

    sumatrapdf

    17.8Ksumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf · C

    SumatraPDF is a free, multi-format document reader for Windows that opens PDF, EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, CBR, FB2, CHM, XPS and DjVu files.

  26. 29

    CNTK

    17.6Kmicrosoft/CNTK · C++

    The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) is an open-source deep-learning toolkit that describes neural networks as a series of computational steps in a directed graph.

  27. 30

    OpenRCT2

    16.4KOpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 · C++

    OpenRCT2 is an open-source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, the classic construction and management sim where you build and run an amusement park and keep guests happy.

  28. 31

    muduo

    16.3Kchenshuo/muduo · C++

    Muduo is a multithreaded C++ network library based on the reactor pattern, built for writing high-performance, event-driven servers on Linux.

  29. 32

    Modern-CPP-Programming

    16.2Kfederico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming · HTML

    A free, open-access Modern C++ Programming course by Federico Busato covering standards from C++03 to C++26 — from language basics to advanced features, tools and optimization.

  30. 33

    guiadevbrasil

    15.8Karthurspk/guiadevbrasil

    GuiaDevBrasil is a large Portuguese-language guide that aggregates resources across many tech areas to help people learn, build knowledge, and clear up doubts for any technology-related career.

  31. 34

    scylladb

    15.8Kscylladb/scylladb · C++

    Scylla is a real-time big data database — a distributed NoSQL data store that is API-compatible with Apache Cassandra and Amazon DynamoDB and built on the Seastar framework.

  32. 35

    xournalpp

    15.5Kxournalpp/xournalpp · C++

    Xournal++ is open-source handwriting note-taking software with PDF annotation support, built in C++ with GTK3 for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

  33. 36

    kaldi

    15.5Kkaldi-asr/kaldi · Shell

    Kaldi is an open-source speech recognition toolkit: C++ code plus example recipes for building speech-to-text, speaker-ID and speaker-verification systems.

  34. 37

    Reverse-Engineering

    14.8Kmytechnotalent/Reverse-Engineering · Assembly

    A free, massive collection of reverse engineering and hacking tutorials covering x86, x64, ARM (32/64-bit), AVR, RISC-V, Windows internals, malware analysis, embedded systems, Rust, Go, Wasm, and more, delivered as free ebooks/lessons.

  35. 38

    textmate

    14.6Ktextmate/textmate · Objective-C++

    TextMate is a graphical text editor for macOS 10.12 or later — a long-running open-source project with about 14.5k stars on GitHub.

  36. 39

    openage

    14.5KSFTtech/openage · Python

    openage is a volunteer-built open-source clone of the Genie Engine used by Age of Empires, Age of Empires II (HD), and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, aiming to recreate the original gameplay with a modern, moddable engine.

  37. 40

    dlib

    14.5Kdavisking/dlib · C++

    Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for building real-world machine learning and data analysis applications, with a Python API included.

  38. 41

    annoy

    14.3Kspotify/annoy · C++

    Annoy (Approximate Nearest Neighbors Oh Yeah) is a C++ library with Python bindings that finds the points in space closest to a given query point. It is optimized for memory usage and for saving and loading indexes to disk.

  39. 42

    nmap

    13.8Knmap/nmap · C

    Nmap is the Network Mapper — a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security scanning. It finds live hosts, open ports, and the services running on them, from a single machine up to whole subnets.

  40. 43

    luanti

    13.7Kluanti-org/luanti · C++

    Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a free, open-source voxel game engine and game-creation platform: play voxel games, join multiplayer servers, or build your own games and mods with Lua.

  41. 44

    Cataclysm-DDA

    13.4KCleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA · C++

    Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is a turn-based survival game set in a procedurally generated post-apocalyptic world, where you scavenge supplies and fight zombies, giant insects, killer robots, and other survivors.

  42. 45

    AutoHotkey

    13.3KAutoHotkey/AutoHotkey · C++

    AutoHotkey is a free, open-source Windows utility for automating repetitive tasks, driven by its own scripting language with built-in support for defining hotkeys.

  43. 46

    assimp

    13.3Kassimp/assimp · C++

    Open Asset Import Library (assimp) - a C++ library that loads 40+ 3D file formats into one shared in-memory data structure, with post-processing tools that clean up the meshes on the way in.

  44. 47

    tiled

    13Kmapeditor/tiled · C++

    Tiled is a free, general-purpose tile map editor for tile-based games such as RPGs, platformers, or Breakout clones. It is highly flexible and runs on all major operating systems.

  45. 48

    xmake

    12.3Kxmake-io/xmake · Lua

    Xmake is a cross-platform build utility for C/C++ and other languages, driven by Lua scripts, that combines a build tool, project generator, and package manager in one.

  46. 49

    taskflow

    12.2Ktaskflow/taskflow · C++

    Taskflow is a C++ library that helps you write high-performance task-parallel programs with high programming productivity, letting you build and run graphs of dependent tasks across CPU threads and GPUs.

  47. 50

    SFML

    12.1KSFML/SFML · C++

    SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) is a simple, fast, cross-platform, object-oriented multimedia API written in C++. It gives your program access to windowing, graphics, audio and networking.

  48. 51

    JoltPhysics

    11.7Kjrouwe/JoltPhysics · C++

    Jolt Physics is a multi-core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library written in C++, built for games and VR applications. It's the engine behind 'Horizon Forbidden West' and 'Death Stranding 2: On the Beach'.

  49. 52

    cpp-sdk

    11.3KQuipNetwork/cpp-sdk · C++

    The Quip C++ SDK is a client library and CLI tool for interacting with Quip smart contracts on Ethereum, letting you deploy and manage 'Quip' wallets that use post-quantum Winternitz signatures instead of standard ECDSA keys.

  50. 53

    pcl

    11.2KPointCloudLibrary/pcl · C++

    PCL (Point Cloud Library) is a standalone, large-scale open source project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing, covering things like filtering, feature estimation, surface reconstruction, registration, model fitting and segmentation.

  51. 54

    kakoune

    11.1Kmawww/kakoune · C++

    Kakoune is a modal code editor that runs in the terminal and implements Vi's 'keystrokes as a text editing language' model. It was originally inspired by Vim and puts a strong focus on interactivity and multiple selections.

  52. 55

    zh-google-styleguide

    11Kzh-google-styleguide/zh-google-styleguide · Makefile

    This is a Chinese-language translation of Google's style guides for its open-source projects, covering coding conventions for C++, Objective-C, Python, Shell, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and Java.

  53. 56

    monero

    10.9Kmonero-project/monero · C++

    Monero (monero-project/monero) is the core C++ implementation of Monero, a private, secure, and untraceable decentralized cryptocurrency.

  54. 57

    mal

    10.7Kkanaka/mal · Assembly

    Mal (Make a Lisp) is a Clojure-inspired Lisp interpreter built as a teaching tool: you implement the same interpreter in 11 incremental steps, and the project provides 95+ reference implementations across 89 languages to compare against.

  55. 58

    openscad

    10.5Kopenscad/openscad · C++

    OpenSCAD is a free application for creating solid 3D CAD objects, available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and macOS. Unlike artistic 3D tools such as Blender, it focuses on the CAD side of 3D modeling.

  56. 59

    gdbgui

    10.4Kcs01/gdbgui · TypeScript

    It's a graphical frontend for gdb (the GNU debugger): instead of typing commands, you add breakpoints, view the call stack, and visualize data structures in a browser UI.

  57. 60

    CefSharp

    10.3Kcefsharp/CefSharp · C#

    CefSharp is a .NET wrapper around the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) that lets you embed a full Chromium browser inside WPF or Windows Forms applications.

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