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NixOS/nix

Nix, the purely functional package manager

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Stack

C++ Meson

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #declarative-language #functional-programming #nix #package-manager

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-03-12
History: 9 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 3,985 open

17,385

stars

Forks: 1,971
Commits: 24,014 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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audacity/audacity

Audio Editor

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#audio #cross-platform #editor #gplv2 #wxwidgets-applications

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-23
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,579 open

17,383

stars

Forks: 2,594
Commits: 24,647 commits
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ZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit

WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/HTTP/HLS/HTTP-FLV/WebSocket-FLV/HTTP-TS/HTTP-fMP4/WebSocket-TS/WebSocket-fMP4/GB28181/SRT/STUN/TURN server and client framework based on C++11

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Stack

C++ Android CMake Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#flv #gb28181 #hls #http #http-flv #http-fmp4

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-01
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 133 open

17,303

stars

Forks: 4,084
Commits: 4,615 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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zerotier/ZeroTierOne

A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#decentralization #networking #peer-to-peer #sd-wan #sdn #virtual-network

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 392 open

16,937

stars

Forks: 1,960
Commits: 6,915 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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ceph/ceph

Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform

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Stack

C++ pytest CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#block-storage #cloud-storage #distributed-file-system #distributed-storage #erasure-coding #fuse

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2001-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

16,839

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Forks: 6,445
Commits: 163,044 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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Snapchat/Valdi

Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity.

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C++ Express React Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#android #cross-platform #ios #typescript #valdi

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-11-06
History: 56 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 18 open

16,388

stars

Forks: 543
Commits: 583 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +25 +4.5%

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wazuh/wazuh

Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.

Stack

C++ pytest Starlette CMake pip

GitHub topics

#cloud-security #compliance #configuration-assessement #container-security #cybersecurity #file-integrity-monitoring

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-09-23
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 2,990 open

16,279

stars

Forks: 2,394
Commits: 48,109 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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official-stockfish/Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#chess #chess-engine #cpp #stockfish #uci

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-01
History: 33 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

16,144

stars

Forks: 2,962
Commits: 7,187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +50 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +10 +0.1%

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OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #discord #game #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-01
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,606 open

15,993

stars

Forks: 1,856
Commits: 30,270 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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alibaba/MNN

MNN: A blazing-fast, lightweight inference engine battle-tested by Alibaba, powering high-performance on-device LLMs and Edge AI.

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Stack

C++ Android Ktor Streamlit Cargo CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#arm #convolution #deep-learning #embedded-devices #llm #machine-learning

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-04-17
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 53 open

15,650

stars

Forks: 2,384
Commits: 2,980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hoffstadt/DearPyGui

Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #cross-platform #dearpygui #graphics #gui #imgui

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 328 open

15,537

stars

Forks: 786
Commits: 3,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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dolphin-emu/dolphin

Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cpp #emulation #emulator #gamecube #wii

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-07-12
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

15,273

stars

Forks: 3,162
Commits: 45,904 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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clsid2/mpc-hc

Media Player Classic

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-06-24
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

15,256

stars

Forks: 626
Commits: 13,332 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xournalpp/xournalpp

Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #crossplatform #gtk3 #notes #notetaking #pdf

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-01-04
History: 36 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,207 open

15,057

stars

Forks: 1,091
Commits: 6,577 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +14 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +1 0.0%

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ggml-org/ggml

Tensor library for machine learning

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#automatic-differentiation #large-language-models #machine-learning #tensor-algebra

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-18
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 347 open

15,044

stars

Forks: 1,731
Commits: 4,226 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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lynx-family/lynx

Empower the Web community and invite more to build across platforms.

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Stack

C++ Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #lynx #lynxjs

Updated: 2026-07-27
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2025-03-04
History: 35 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 986 open

15,007

stars

Forks: 542
Commits: 4,841 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +54 +1.1%

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transmission/transmission

Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

Stack

C++ Android Qt CMake Gradle npm

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2006-01-12
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 832 open

14,988

stars

Forks: 1,413
Commits: 16,896 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

alibaba/zvec

A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517

GitHub topics

#agent-skills #db #embedded #faiss #hnsw #llm-memory

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 70 open

14,902

stars

Forks: 926
Commits: 314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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organicmaps/organicmaps

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

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Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #app #cpp #cyclists #hacktoberfest #hikers

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-12-05
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,413 open

14,875

stars

Forks: 1,511
Commits: 44,597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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musescore/MuseScore

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

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Stack

C++ CMake npm PDM

GitHub topics

#cpp #musescore #music-notation #musicxml #qt #sfz

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4,037 open

14,861

stars

Forks: 3,223
Commits: 48,378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bulletphysics/bullet3

Bullet Physics SDK: real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#computer-animation #game-development #kinematics #pybullet #reinforcement-learning #robotics

Updated: 2025-10-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-05-25
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 420 open

14,601

stars

Forks: 3,083
Commits: 9,405 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mltframework/shotcut

cross-platform (Qt), open-source (GPLv3) video editor

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Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#cross-platform #gplv3 #mlt #shotcut #video-editor

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-22
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 49 open

14,580

stars

Forks: 1,446
Commits: 7,256 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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davisking/dlib

A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #deep-learning #dlib #machine-learning #machine-learning-library

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-02
History: 7 history points
License: BSL-1.0
Issues: 41 open

14,429

stars

Forks: 3,447
Commits: 8,367 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dail8859/NotepadNext

A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#desktop #editor #linux #macos #notepad #notepad-plus-plus

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-11-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 90 open

14,355

stars

Forks: 897
Commits: 1,037 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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spotify/annoy

Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #c-plus-plus #golang #locality-sensitive-hashing #lua #nearest-neighbor-search

Updated: 2025-10-29
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-20
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 83 open

14,270

stars

Forks: 1,228
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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arangodb/arangodb

🥑 ArangoDB is a native multi-model database with flexible data models for documents, graphs, and key-values. Build high performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#arangodb #database #distributed-database #document-database #graph-database #graphdb

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-26
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 828 open

14,243

stars

Forks: 884
Commits: 52,731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

google-deepmind/mujoco

Multi-Joint dynamics with Contact. A general purpose physics simulator.

Stack

C++ pytest Vite CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#mujoco #physics #robotics

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-10-18
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 364 open

14,210

stars

Forks: 1,641
Commits: 5,101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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carla-simulator/carla

Open-source simulator for autonomous driving research.

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#ai #artificial-intelligence #autonomous-driving #autonomous-vehicles #carla #carla-simulator

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,180 open

14,170

stars

Forks: 4,629
Commits: 6,750 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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hrydgard/ppsspp

A PSP emulator for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS, written in C++. Want to contribute? Join us on Discord at https://discord.gg/5NJB6dD or just send pull requests / issues.

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Stack

C++ Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulators #ppsspp #psp

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,347 open

14,136

stars

Forks: 2,549
Commits: 46,503 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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isl-org/Open3D

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

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Stack

C++ Flask CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-perception #arm #computer-graphics #cpp #cuda

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,364 open

13,789

stars

Forks: 2,586
Commits: 4,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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