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BoomingTech/Piccolo

Piccolo (formerly Pilot) – mini game engine for games104

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cplusplus #cpp #game-development #game-engine #imgui #physics

Updated: 2024-09-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-03-20
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 94 open

6,692

stars

Forks: 1,975
Commits: 204 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mesonbuild/meson

The Meson Build System

Stack

Python CMake Meson PEP 517

Updated: 2026-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-23
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,257 open

6,617

stars

Forks: 1,935
Commits: 17,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

scikit-image/scikit-image

Image processing in Python

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest Meson PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#computer-vision #image-processing #python

Updated: 2026-08-17
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-08-22
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 945 open

6,576

stars

Forks: 2,408
Commits: 14,700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

GNOME/gimp

Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,337

stars

Forks: 877
Commits: 58,836 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cisco/openh264

Open Source H.264 Codec

Stack

C++ Android Gradle Meson

Updated: 2026-08-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-27
History: 4 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 302 open

6,128

stars

Forks: 1,914
Commits: 5,279 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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FeralInteractive/gamemode

Optimise Linux system performance on demand

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#linux #videogames

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-11
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 217 open

6,000

stars

Forks: 217
Commits: 740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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beancount/beancount

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517

GitHub topics

#beancount

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-23
History: 74 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 235 open

5,890

stars

Forks: 462
Commits: 6,419 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #dbus #libnotify #notification-daemon #wayland #x11

Updated: 2026-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 124 open

5,578

stars

Forks: 381
Commits: 2,640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Netflix/vmaf

Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

Stack

C Meson PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 107 open

5,441

stars

Forks: 826
Commits: 2,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy

Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat.

Stack

C++ Meson

GitHub topics

#cellular-automata #game #powder #powder-toy #sandbox #simulation

Updated: 2026-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-25
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 40 open

5,284

stars

Forks: 896
Commits: 6,473 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #containers #hacktoberfest #lxc

Updated: 2026-08-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 148 open

5,253

stars

Forks: 1,180
Commits: 12,065 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

signalwire/freeswitch

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a versatile software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. From a Raspberry PI to a multi-core server, FreeSWITCH can unlock the telecommunications potential of any device.

Stack

C CMake .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#freeswitch #iot #open-source #signalwire #sip #source-code

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-29
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,216 open

5,127

stars

Forks: 1,840
Commits: 36,176 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hbons/SparkleShare

Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows

Stack

C# .NET SDK Meson

GitHub topics

#arch #backup #cloud-storage #collaboration #debian #decentralized

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 69 open

4,971

stars

Forks: 566
Commits: 4,759 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

F-Stack/f-stack

F-Stack is an user space network development kit with high performance based on DPDK, FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and coroutine API.

Stack

C Meson Poetry

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-14
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3 open

4,255

stars

Forks: 964
Commits: 1,768 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tanersener/mobile-ffmpeg

FFmpeg for Android, iOS and tvOS. Not maintained anymore. Superseded by FFmpegKit.

Archived

Stack

C Android CMake CocoaPods .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#android #ffmpeg #fontconfig #freetype #fribidi #gmp

Updated: 2025-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-27
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,139

stars

Forks: 892
Commits: 831 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ChefKissInc/Inferno

Apple Silicon device emulator.

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #ios #iphone #iphone-11 #qemu

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 39 open

3,881

stars

Forks: 319
Commits: 125,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

canonical/cloud-init

Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cloud-init #hacktoberfest #python

Updated: 2026-09-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-15
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 608 open

3,807

stars

Forks: 1,130
Commits: 7,795 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aubio/aubio

a library for audio and music analysis

Stack

C pytest CMake Meson pip

GitHub topics

#analysis #annotation #audio #beat #c #extraction

Updated: 2026-04-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-10-28
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 157 open

3,752

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 4,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,274 open

3,703

stars

Forks: 666
Commits: 10,812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

joncampbell123/dosbox-x

DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

Stack

C Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-08
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 2,039 open

3,697

stars

Forks: 559
Commits: 21,843 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

open-goal/jak-project

Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series

AI dev

Stack

Common Lisp Android pytest Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#jak #jak-and-daxter #lisp #ps2 #reverse-engineering #scheme

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-08-22
History: 1 history point
License: ISC
Issues: 187 open

3,506

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 3,064 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

snes9xgit/snes9x

Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 225 open

3,310

stars

Forks: 569
Commits: 2,702 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

emersion/mako

A lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#cli #notifications #swaywm #wayland

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-22
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 134 open

3,247

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

virt-manager/virt-manager

Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

AI dev

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-28
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 158 open

3,223

stars

Forks: 537
Commits: 9,013 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

irssi/irssi

The client of the future

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#irc #irc-client #irc-protocol #irssi

Updated: 2026-02-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1999-09-03
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 229 open

3,129

stars

Forks: 394
Commits: 6,931 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Aylur/ags

Scaffolding CLI for Astal+Gnim

Stack

TypeScript Cobra Vite Vue Go modules Meson npm

GitHub topics

#gtk3 #gtk4 #layer-shell #typescript #unixporn #wayland

Updated: 2026-04-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-06-24
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 31 open

3,090

stars

Forks: 152
Commits: 757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WolfireGames/overgrowth

Open Source codebase of the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games LLC

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-09-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-08
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 92 open

2,900

stars

Forks: 284
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

coreboot/coreboot

Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.

Stack

C Go modules Meson pip

GitHub topics

#bios #c #coreboot #firmware

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,768

stars

Forks: 644
Commits: 64,718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD

Music Player Daemon

Stack

C++ Gradle Meson pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-player #music

Updated: 2026-08-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-02-23
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 167 open

2,741

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 19,876 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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