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Cpp11 projects on GitHub

Modern C++ language features and practices

As of , the most-starred Cpp11 projects on GitHub are CPlusPlusThings (43.5K stars), aria2 (43.1K stars) and spdlog (29.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 15 Cpp11 repositories with 292K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was aria2, with +18 stars in a day.

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292KStars in total
+44Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+18

aria2

aria2/aria2 · ★ 43.1K

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.

+5

simdjson

simdjson/simdjson · ★ 24.4K

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.

+5

compiler

edgcpp/compiler · ★ 936

This is the open-source EDG C/C++ compiler front end project: a parser and semantic analyzer for C and C++ that is famous for matching Clang, GCC, and MSVC's parsing behavior (including their quirks) so vendors can embed it in their own tools.

+3

spdlog

gabime/spdlog · ★ 29.7K

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.

The all-time top

15 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · Light-City/CPlusPlusThings

    CPlusPlusThings

    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.

    43.5K
  2. #2 · aria2/aria2

    aria2

    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.

    43.1K
  3. #3 · gabime/spdlog

    spdlog

    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.

    29.7K
  1. 4

    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.

  2. 5

    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.

  3. 6

    modern-cpp-features

    21.9KAnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

    A cheatsheet listing and explaining the new language and library features introduced in each modern C++ standard: C++11, C++14, C++17, C++20, and C++23.

  4. 7

    pybind11

    18Kpybind/pybind11 · C++

    pybind11 is a lightweight header-only C++ library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa — mainly to create Python bindings for existing C++ code.

  5. 8

    cpp-httplib

    16.9Kyhirose/cpp-httplib · C++

    A C++11 single-file header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library — you add networking to a C++ program by including one header, httplib.h.

  6. 9

    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.

  7. 10

    awesome-modern-cpp

    13.2Krigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp · HTML

    A curated list of resources for learning and using modern C++ (C++11 and later): books, talks, blogs, websites, project templates, and high-quality libraries.

  8. 11

    MyTinySTL

    12.5KAlinshans/MyTinySTL · C++

    A tiny reimplementation of the C++ Standard Template Library written from scratch in C++11 — most standard containers and algorithms, started as the author's first practice project and now at version 2.x.x.

  9. 12

    raytracing.github.io

    10.7KRayTracing/raytracing.github.io · HTML

    The home of the free 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' series: three online books that teach you to write a ray tracer from scratch in C++, plus the source code for each book.

  10. 13

    ORB_SLAM2

    10.3Kraulmur/ORB_SLAM2 · C++

    ORB-SLAM2 is a real-time SLAM library for monocular, stereo and RGB-D cameras: it tracks the camera trajectory and builds a sparse 3D reconstruction, with loop detection and relocalization.

  11. 14

    cppinsights

    4.7Kandreasfertig/cppinsights · C++

    C++ Insights is a Clang-based source-to-source transformation tool that shows C++ code the way the compiler actually sees it, revealing implicit things like compiler-generated special member functions, implicit casts, and what lambdas, range-based for-loops, or auto/decltype actually expand to.

  12. 15

    compiler

    936edgcpp/compiler · C

    This is the open-source EDG C/C++ compiler front end project: a parser and semantic analyzer for C and C++ that is famous for matching Clang, GCC, and MSVC's parsing behavior (including their quirks) so vendors can embed it in their own tools.

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