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mesonbuild/meson

The Meson Build System

Stack

Python CMake Meson PEP 517

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-23
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,389 open

6,574

stars

Forks: 1,902
Commits: 17,588 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: 2026-07-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2009-08-22
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 935 open

6,561

stars

Forks: 2,393
Commits: 14,695 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GNOME/gimp

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

Stack

C Meson

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 1997-01-01
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

6,279

stars

Forks: 873
Commits: 58,619 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: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-27
History: 3 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 299 open

6,098

stars

Forks: 1,907
Commits: 5,274 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 213 open

5,925

stars

Forks: 216
Commits: 740 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

beancount/beancount

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.

Stack

Python pytest Meson PEP 517 uv

GitHub topics

#beancount

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-23
History: 58 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 232 open

5,842

stars

Forks: 455
Commits: 6,419 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +19 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dunst-project/dunst

Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 120 open

5,549

stars

Forks: 379
Commits: 2,639 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: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-30
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 106 open

5,415

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 2,267 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lxc/lxc

LXC - Linux Containers

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#c #containers #hacktoberfest #lxc

Updated: 2026-06-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-08-06
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 149 open

5,220

stars

Forks: 1,177
Commits: 12,054 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-07-25
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 39 open

5,212

stars

Forks: 871
Commits: 6,445 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: 2026-07-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-29
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,175 open

5,004

stars

Forks: 1,802
Commits: 36,129 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 #cloud-storage #collaboration #debian #decentralized #dropbox

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-04-27
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 89 open

4,962

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 4,756 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: 2026-07-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2002-11-27
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 920 open

4,426

stars

Forks: 1,015
Commits: 35,770 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: 2026-07-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-14
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 182 open

4,245

stars

Forks: 955
Commits: 1,625 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: 3 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,138

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: 2026-06-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-02-18
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 38 open

3,802

stars

Forks: 316
Commits: 125,692 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: 2026-07-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2008-09-15
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 540 open

3,753

stars

Forks: 1,093
Commits: 7,761 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: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 157 open

3,727

stars

Forks: 420
Commits: 4,214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

geany/geany

A fast and lightweight IDE

Stack

C Meson

GitHub topics

#geany #ide #text-editor

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-11-22
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,242 open

3,663

stars

Forks: 663
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: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-08
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 2,031 open

3,660

stars

Forks: 545
Commits: 21,731 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

snes9xgit/snes9x

Snes9x - Portable Super Nintendo Entertainment System (TM) emulator

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Meson

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2010-09-25
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 225 open

3,243

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 2,676 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

virt-manager/virt-manager

Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt

AI dev

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-06-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-03-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 154 open

3,206

stars

Forks: 534
Commits: 9,012 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: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 132 open

3,186

stars

Forks: 172
Commits: 650 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 227 open

3,128

stars

Forks: 391
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: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 29 open

3,062

stars

Forks: 154
Commits: 757 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website 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: 2026-07-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-04-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: Disabled

2,747

stars

Forks: 638
Commits: 64,195 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

MusicPlayerDaemon/MPD

Music Player Daemon

Stack

C++ Gradle Meson pip

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-player #music

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2004-02-23
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 168 open

2,732

stars

Forks: 417
Commits: 19,739 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

MayaPosch/NymphCast

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

Stack

C Android Cargo CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#angelscript #audio #audio-player #audio-streaming #casting #nymphcast-server

Updated: 2026-01-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-02-08
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 23 open

2,555

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 1,269 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Jas-SinghFSU/HyprPanel

A Bar/Panel for Hyprland with extensive customizability.

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Meson npm

GitHub topics

#ags #astal #catppuccin #dracula #everforest #gjs

Updated: 2026-04-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-06-09
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 226 open

2,206

stars

Forks: 210
Commits: 630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

pygments/pygments

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python

Stack

Python Meson PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#python #syntax-highlighting

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-10-19
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 583 open

2,192

stars

Forks: 838
Commits: 7,268 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

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