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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: 2026-08-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-26
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 838 open

14,262

stars

Forks: 884
Commits: 53,589 commits
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Website GitHub

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.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#emulators #ppsspp #psp

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-03-24
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,365 open

14,258

stars

Forks: 2,584
Commits: 47,052 commits
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isl-org/Open3D

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,309 open

13,945

stars

Forks: 2,618
Commits: 4,272 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-08-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-11-26
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,508 open

13,505

stars

Forks: 2,438
Commits: 13,720 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-10-04
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,807 open

13,123

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Forks: 4,637
Commits: 129,498 commits
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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: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-03-09
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

13,064

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Forks: 1,166
Commits: 4,995 commits
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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: 2026-08-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-24
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 11 open

13,061

stars

Forks: 1,112
Commits: 7,677 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-10-01
History: 8 history points
License: LGPL-3.0
Issues: 535 open

12,895

stars

Forks: 1,297
Commits: 3,215 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-05-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 833 open

12,843

stars

Forks: 1,952
Commits: 7,108 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 271 open

12,499

stars

Forks: 672
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: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 681 open

12,326

stars

Forks: 1,325
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: 2026-08-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-10-21
History: 13 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 404 open

12,107

stars

Forks: 583
Commits: 6,886 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

Code. Music. Live.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 24 open

12,076

stars

Forks: 987
Commits: 12,360 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFML/SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-01-28
History: 5 history points
License: Zlib
Issues: 153 open

11,992

stars

Forks: 1,903
Commits: 3,961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-11-19
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 717 open

11,952

stars

Forks: 639
Commits: 13,966 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: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 512 open

11,640

stars

Forks: 761
Commits: 15,252 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: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-02
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 580 open

11,112

stars

Forks: 4,700
Commits: 14,716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 915 open

11,021

stars

Forks: 775
Commits: 11,088 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-09-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-15
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 843 open

10,834

stars

Forks: 3,377
Commits: 23,116 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 7 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 172 open

10,661

stars

Forks: 967
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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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: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-09
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

10,611

stars

Forks: 958
Commits: 12,325 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-08-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2009-09-14
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 299 open

10,519

stars

Forks: 393
Commits: 4,755 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bpftrace/bpftrace

High-level tracing language for Linux

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-12-11
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 252 open

10,299

stars

Forks: 1,479
Commits: 4,951 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks

Production ready toolkit to run AI locally

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android Electron FastAPI Flutter Bundler CMake CocoaPods

GitHub topics

#android #apple-intelligence #cpp #diffusion-models #edge #flutter

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-07-22
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 77 open

10,285

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 4,137 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

LMMS/lmms

Cross-platform music production software

Stack

C++ Qt CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#daw #hacktoberfest #midi #music #songs

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2005-09-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,439 open

10,234

stars

Forks: 1,238
Commits: 8,489 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: 2026-08-12
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 1998-04-18
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

10,194

stars

Forks: 831
Commits: 66,467 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: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-03-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 129 open

9,787

stars

Forks: 599
Commits: 1,594 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-05
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,009 open

9,785

stars

Forks: 2,137
Commits: 22,334 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

NVIDIA/cudf

cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-30
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,341 open

9,752

stars

Forks: 1,106
Commits: 44,661 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +3 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +32 +0.1%

Website GitHub

diasurgical/DevilutionX

Diablo build for modern operating systems

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#debian #devilution #diablo #game #hacktober #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-06-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 479 open

9,739

stars

Forks: 1,016
Commits: 12,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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