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luanti-org/luanti

Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cpp17 #game-engine #lua #luanti #minetest

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,460 open

13,355

stars

Forks: 2,395
Commits: 13,569 commits
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Website GitHub

skypjack/entt

Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#architectural-patterns #cpp #cpp17 #cpp20 #data-oriented #data-oriented-design

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-24
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

12,888

stars

Forks: 1,102
Commits: 7,395 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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vnotex/vnote

A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#editor #markdown #mathjax #note #note-taking #uml

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 7 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 642 open

12,869

stars

Forks: 1,298
Commits: 3,089 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA

Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cataclysm #game #hacktoberfest #zombies

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,871 open

12,780

stars

Forks: 4,575
Commits: 129,072 commits
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Website GitHub

mapeditor/tiled

Flexible level editor

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Maven npm

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #editor #game #game-development #hacktoberfest #java

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-05
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 820 open

12,764

stars

Forks: 1,942
Commits: 7,104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
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Website GitHub

AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#autohotkey #automation #c-plus-plus #hotkeys #scripting #scripting-language

Updated: 2026-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-09
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

12,725

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Forks: 1,147
Commits: 4,972 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Snapchat/KeyDB

A Multithreaded Fork of Redis

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2024-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-03-22
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 270 open

12,491

stars

Forks: 664
Commits: 27,522 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vesoft-inc/nebula

A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #cpp #database #distributed #distributed-systems #graph

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-14
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 678 open

12,290

stars

Forks: 1,323
Commits: 3,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hluk/CopyQ

Clipboard manager with advanced features

AI dev

Stack

C++ Qt CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#clipboard #clipboard-manager #copyq #cross-platform #scripting #tray

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 12 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 400 open

12,022

stars

Forks: 578
Commits: 6,880 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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SFML/SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #cross-platform #games #graphics #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 4 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 154 open

11,965

stars

Forks: 1,902
Commits: 3,953 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

Open-source search database for full-text, vector, and hybrid search with real-time indexing and SQL.

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#api #bm25 #cpp #database #full-text-search #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 694 open

11,906

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 13,896 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

Code. Music. Live.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip

GitHub topics

#art #audio #education #instrument #live-coding #livecoding

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-02
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 23 open

11,904

stars

Forks: 981
Commits: 12,215 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #cpp #pcl #point-cloud #pointcloud

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 583 open

11,055

stars

Forks: 4,689
Commits: 14,683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LostRuins/koboldcpp

Run GGUF models easily with a KoboldAI UI. One File. Zero Install.

Stack

C++ pytest Svelte SvelteKit Tailwind CSS CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#gemma #ggml #gguf #koboldai #koboldcpp #language-model

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 475 open

11,028

stars

Forks: 729
Commits: 14,314 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mawww/kakoune

mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #console-application #kakoune #modal-editing #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 6 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 915 open

10,995

stars

Forks: 773
Commits: 11,069 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Const-me/Whisper

High-performance GPGPU inference of OpenAI's Whisper automatic speech recognition (ASR) model

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-05-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-07
History: 5 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 171 open

10,562

stars

Forks: 962
Commits: 205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openvinotoolkit/openvino

OpenVINO™ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Conan npm

GitHub topics

#ai #computer-vision #deep-learning #deploy-ai #diffusion-models #generative-ai

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-15
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 711 open

10,520

stars

Forks: 3,280
Commits: 22,486 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tstack/lnav

Log file navigator

Stack

C++ Flask Bundler Cargo CMake

GitHub topics

#command-line-tool #less #log-analysis #log-monitor #log-viewer #log-visualization

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-14
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 291 open

10,449

stars

Forks: 390
Commits: 4,754 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

stenzek/duckstation

Fast PlayStation 1 emulator for x86-64/AArch32/AArch64/RV64

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#appimage #emulator #enhancements #fast #hardware-renderers #jit-compiler

Updated: 2026-07-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

10,396

stars

Forks: 935
Commits: 12,093 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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niedev/RTranslator

Open source real-time translation app for Android that runs locally

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle pip

GitHub topics

#android #android-app #bluetooth-le #mobile-app #nllb #offline

Updated: 2026-07-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-30
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 26 open

10,252

stars

Forks: 937
Commits: 298 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bpftrace/bpftrace

High-level tracing language for Linux

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#bcc #bpf #ebpf #kprobes #tracepoints #tracing

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-11
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 250 open

10,202

stars

Forks: 1,467
Commits: 4,875 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

LMMS/lmms

Cross-platform music production software

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#daw #hacktoberfest #midi #music #songs

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-09-22
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,433 open

10,147

stars

Forks: 1,225
Commits: 8,484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

KDE/krita

Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake pip

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1998-04-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

10,070

stars

Forks: 813
Commits: 66,379 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rapidsai/cudf

cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#arrow #cpp #cuda #cudf #dask #data-analysis

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,260 open

9,704

stars

Forks: 1,080
Commits: 44,047 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cocos/cocos-engine

Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#3d #cocos #cocoscreator #engine #game-development #game-engine

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-05
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,025 open

9,688

stars

Forks: 2,122
Commits: 22,300 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Tiiny-AI/PowerInfer

High-speed Large Language Model Serving for Local Deployment

Stack

C++ Android pytest CMake Gradle PEP 517

GitHub topics

#large-language-models #llama #llm #llm-inference #local-inference

Updated: 2026-05-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

9,636

stars

Forks: 588
Commits: 1,594 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Studio3T/robomongo

Native cross-platform MongoDB management tool

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-09-22
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-07
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

9,367

stars

Forks: 823
Commits: 2,559 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

activeloopai/deeplake

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-rag #ai #clawbot #computer-vision #datalake

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 69 open

9,206

stars

Forks: 721
Commits: 9,411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

canonical/multipass

Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

Stack

C++ Flutter pytest Qt Shelf Cargo CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#cloud #container #hyper-v #libvirt #linux #macos

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-12-01
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 387 open

9,183

stars

Forks: 813
Commits: 16,753 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

anbox/anbox

Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system

Archived

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#anbox #android #linux #snap

Updated: 2024-02-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-05-26
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 381 open

9,057

stars

Forks: 1,158
Commits: 1,366 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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