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Ardour/ardour

Mirror of Ardour Source Code

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #c-plus-plus #daw #jack #lv2 #midi

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-13
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

5,169

stars

Forks: 935
Commits: 43,523 commits
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amhndu/SimpleNES

An NES emulator in C++

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #emulator #nes-emulator #sfml

Updated: 2025-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-01
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

5,107

stars

Forks: 1,129
Commits: 187 commits
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lightvector/KataGo

GTP engine and self-play learning in Go

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-11-13
History: 42 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 491 open

5,107

stars

Forks: 762
Commits: 4,321 commits
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microsoft/SPTAG

A distributed approximate nearest neighborhood search (ANN) library which provides a high quality vector index build, search and distributed online serving toolkits for large scale vector search scenario.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #distributed-serving #fresh-update #neighborhood-graph #space-partition-tree #vector-search

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-09-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 143 open

5,017

stars

Forks: 621
Commits: 264 commits
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sorayuki/obs-multi-rtmp

OBS複数サイト同時配信プラグイン

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-07
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 210 open

4,973

stars

Forks: 644
Commits: 533 commits
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gameplay3d/gameplay

Open-source, cross-platform, C++ game engine for creating 2D/3D games.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #engine #open-source #vulkan

Updated: 2025-02-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-10-16
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: Disabled

4,900

stars

Forks: 1,314
Commits: 4,603 commits
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clangen/musikcube

a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#alsa #audio-engine #audio-player #coreaudio #cross-platform #curses

Updated: 2026-03-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-03-18
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 176 open

4,817

stars

Forks: 318
Commits: 3,739 commits
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urho3d/urho3d

Game engine

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#2d #3d #3d-graphics #angelscript #cpp #cpp17

Updated: 2023-01-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 72 open

4,765

stars

Forks: 1,013
Commits: 10,578 commits
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electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour

Command and Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour

Archived

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#command-and-conquer #open-source #real-time-strategy #rts

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-02-27
History: 44 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

4,717

stars

Forks: 1,854
Commits: 4 commits
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infiniflow/infinity

The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Next.js pytest React Svelte CMake Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#ai-native #approximate-nearest-neighbor-search #bm25 #cpp20 #cpp20-modules #embedding

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 122 open

4,706

stars

Forks: 443
Commits: 3,171 commits
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OpenNMT/CTranslate2

Fast inference engine for Transformer models

Stack

C++ pytest CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#avx #avx2 #cpp #cuda #deep-learning #deep-neural-networks

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 283 open

4,667

stars

Forks: 528
Commits: 2,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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TTimo/doom3.gpl

Doom 3 GPL source release

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

Updated: 2022-05-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-22
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

4,633

stars

Forks: 1,763
Commits: 40 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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cyberbotics/webots

Webots Robot Simulator

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#3d-engine #ai #autonomous-vehicles #computer-vision #fluid-dynamics #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-05
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 228 open

4,603

stars

Forks: 2,051
Commits: 15,769 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Almamu/linux-wallpaperengine

Wallpaper Engine backgrounds for Linux!

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#linux #opengl #wallpaper-app #wallpaper-engine

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-05
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 258 open

4,591

stars

Forks: 201
Commits: 627 commits
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kripken/ammo.js

Direct port of the Bullet physics engine to JavaScript using Emscripten

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK npm

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-05-29
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 175 open

4,558

stars

Forks: 581
Commits: 436 commits
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royshil/obs-backgroundremoval

An OBS plugin for removing background in portrait images (video), making it easy to replace the background when recording or streaming.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Astro Vite CMake npm pip

GitHub topics

#background-segmentation #computer-vision #image-segmentation #libobs #mac-osx #obs

Updated: 2026-08-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-07
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 27 open

4,455

stars

Forks: 283
Commits: 490 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mapbox/mapbox-gl-native

Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL

Archived

Stack

C++ Android Express CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #c-plus-plus #geojson #ios #java #macos

Updated: 2023-07-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 312 open

4,453

stars

Forks: 1,322
Commits: 15,978 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dcajasn/Riskfolio-Lib

Portfolio Optimization in Python

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#asset-allocation #convex-optimization #cvar-optimization #cvxpy #drawdown-model #duration-matching

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-03-02
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 6 open

4,441

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 409 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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PowerDNS/pdns

PowerDNS Authoritative, PowerDNS Recursor, dnsdist

Stack

C++ pytest Cargo Meson pip

GitHub topics

#authoritative #dns #dns-server #dnsdist #hacktoberfest #powerdns

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-11-27
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 929 open

4,440

stars

Forks: 1,017
Commits: 35,952 commits
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Website GitHub

fxsound2/fxsound-app

FxSound application and DSP source code

AI dev

Stack

C++ .NET SDK Go modules

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-11-14
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 159 open

4,419

stars

Forks: 341
Commits: 456 commits
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apache/kvrocks

Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol.

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#database #distributed #kv #namespace #redis #redis-cluster

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-08-15
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 235 open

4,385

stars

Forks: 648
Commits: 2,205 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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memgraph/memgraph

High-performance open-source in-memory graph database for GraphRAG, AI memory, agentic AI, and real-time graph analytics. Cypher-compatible, built in C++.

Stack

C++ pytest Cargo CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-agents #ai-memory #context-graph #cypher #enterprise-context

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-06-18
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 786 open

4,352

stars

Forks: 259
Commits: 5,176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nuttyartist/notes

Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

Stack

C++ Qt CMake

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cross-platform #gui #local-first #markdown #note-managment

Updated: 2026-05-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-12-25
History: 8 history points
License: MPL-2.0
Issues: 137 open

4,263

stars

Forks: 383
Commits: 1,288 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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clementine-player/Clementine

:tangerine: Clementine Music Player

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #linux #mac #music #qt #windows

Updated: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-24
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2,439 open

4,238

stars

Forks: 725
Commits: 8,361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sbarex/SourceCodeSyntaxHighlight

Quick Look extension for highlight source code files on macOS 10.15 and later.

Stack

C++ Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#quicklook-extension #quicklook-plugin

Updated: 2026-04-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-10-15
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 83 open

4,203

stars

Forks: 99
Commits: 242 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

facebookincubator/velox

A composable and fully extensible C++ execution engine library for data management systems.

AI dev

Stack

C++ React CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#data-management #query-processing

Updated: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-09
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,535 open

4,182

stars

Forks: 1,561
Commits: 13,665 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JoseExposito/touchegg

Linux multi-touch gesture recognizer

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#gesture-recognition #libinput #linux #multi-touch #touchpad #touchscreen

Updated: 2025-06-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 38 open

4,121

stars

Forks: 183
Commits: 673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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univrsal/input-overlay

Show keyboard, gamepad and mouse input on stream

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#input #keyboard #obs #overlay #plugin

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-08-11
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 26 open

4,118

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 1,155 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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RawTherapee/RawTherapee

A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#photography #raw #rawtherapee

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2010-01-01
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,014 open

4,102

stars

Forks: 408
Commits: 13,028 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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google/oboe

Oboe is a C++ library that makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android.

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

GitHub topics

#android #audio #oboe

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-11
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 161 open

4,089

stars

Forks: 631
Commits: 2,152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
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