Awesome C++

A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.

• Awesome C++
  • Standard Libraries
  • Frameworks
  • Artificial Intelligence
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  • Audio
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  • Machine Learning
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  • Office Open XML
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  • Physics
  • Reflection
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  • Scientific Computing
  • Scripting
  • Serialization
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  • Video
  • Virtual Machines
  • Web Application Framework
  • XML
  • Yaml
  • Miscellaneous
• Software
  • Compiler
  • Online Compiler
  • Debugger
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Build Systems
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Coding Style Tools
• Resources
  • API Design
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• Contributing - If you see a project or link here that is no longer maintained or is not a good fit, please submit a pull request to improve this document. Thank you!

Standard Libraries

C++ Standard Library - including STL Containers, STL Algorithm, STL Functional, etc.

• C++ Standard Library - A collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself.
• Standard Template Library - The Standard Template Library (STL).
• C POSIX library - A specification of a C standard library for POSIX systems.
• ISO C++ Standards Committee - ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 - The C++ Standards Committee. website
• The GNU C Library - The purpose of this manual is to tell you how to use the facilities of the GNU C Library.

Frameworks

C++ generic frameworks and libraries.

• abseil-cpp - Abseil C++ Common Libraries. [Apache2]
• Apache C++ Standard Library - STDCXX, A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components. [retired] [Apache2]
• APR - Apache Portable Runtime. Another library of cross-platform utility functions. [Apache2]
• ASL - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. [MIT]
• AUI - Declarative UI toolkit for C++20. [MPL2]
• Boost :zap: - A large collection of generic C++ libraries. [Boost] website
• BDE - The BDE Development Environment from Bloomberg Labs. [Apache2]
• C++ Workflow :zap: - C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine. [Apache2]
• CGraph - A cross-platform DAG framework based on C++ without any 3rd-party. [MIT]
• Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding. [BSD]
• Coost - A tiny boost library in C++11. [MIT]
• Cxxomfort - A small, header-only library that backports various facilities from more recent C++ Standards to C++03 and later. [MIT]
• Dlib :zap: - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++. [Boost] website
• EASTL - Electronic Arts Standard Template Library. [BSD]
• ETL - Embedded Template Library. [MIT]
• - Framework for Enterprise Application Development. [Apache2]

Artificial Intelligence

• ANNetGPGPU - A GPU (CUDA) based Artificial Neural Network library. [LGPL]
• btsk - Game Behavior Tree Starter Kit. [zlib]
• cpp-mcp - Lightweight C++ MCP (Model Context Protocol) SDK. [MIT]
• Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast. [LGPL]
• fastmcpp - C++ port of the fastmcp Python library. [Apache2]
• frugally-deep - Header-only library for using Keras models in C++. [MIT]
• Genann - Simple neural network library in C. [zlib]
• MXNet - Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler; for Python, R, Julia, Scala, Go, JavaScript and more. website
• PyTorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU accel