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awesome-cpp

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

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

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I recommend taking a look at this: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp It's a very well curated list containing both older and more recent projects realized in C++, neatly…

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Observed mentions: 2015-07-05 00:37:51 UTC to 2025-11-06 22:27:24 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

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westurner·Sep 28, 2023
Xeus-cling is a Jupyter Kernel for C/C++: https://github.com/jupyter-xeus/xeus-cling#a-c-notebook With the xeus-cling Jupyter Kernel for C/C++, variable redefinitions in subsequent notebook input cells do not raise a compiler warning or error. There's JsRoot, which may already work with JupyterLite in WASM in a browser tab? There's a ROOT kernel for Jupyter, too: https://github.com/root-project/root/tree/master/bindings/ju... Instead of the ROOT Jupyter Kernel, you can just call into ROOT from Python with PyRoot (from a notebook that specifies e.g. ipykernel, xeus-python, or pyodide Jupyter kernels). "ROOT has its Jupyter Kernel!" (2015) https://root.cern/blog/root-has-its-jupyter-kernel/ IDK if there are Apache Arrow bindings for ROOT?; though there certainly are for C/C++, Python, and other languages You must install jupyter_console to
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use Jupyter kernels from the CLI like IPython with ipykernel. In addition to IPython/Jupyter notebook, jupyterlab, vscode, and vscode.dev+devpod; awesome-cpp#debug: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp#debug "Debugging a Mixed Python and C Language Stack" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35710350 ROOT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROOT "Root: CERN's scientific data analysis framework for C++" (2019) because if PyRoot to C++ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20691614 : `conda install -c conda-forge -y root jupyterlab jupyter_console xeus-cling jupyterlite` SymPy's lambdify() doesn't support ROOT but does support many other ML and NN frameworks; From "Stem formulas" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839748 : > sympy.utilities.lambdify.lambdify() https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/a76b02fcd3a8b7f79b3a88df... : >> """Convert a SymPy expression into a function that allows for fast numeric evaluation [e.g. the CPython math module, mpmath, NumPy, SciPy, CuPy, JAX, TensorFlow, SymPy, numexpr,]
In Interactive GCC (igcc) is a read-eval-print loop (REPL) for C/C++
jcelerier·Apr 20, 2022
Could you detail what exact tooling you are talking about ? Like, this static analyzer looks interesting but 5 years ago clang --analyze had no trouble producing me a nice html indicating the 27 steps across 6 functions that lead to a pointer being dereferenced after being deleted. Tooling is there but it seems that pretty much no one is aware of it - see e.g. this: https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/cppbestpractices/blob/... or this: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp for a quick look at what exists (and both are very non-exhaustive).
In IKOS: Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation
abrolhos·Oct 28, 2020
Just a suggestion... I cannot attest for the code quality of the projects on the link below, but I find it easier to start learning from smaller code bases. So when you have a chance you could take a look at this link that lists one-to-two files libraries: https://github.com/nothings/single_file_libs I think I came across the link above here on HN a couple of weeks ago. I also study some of the libs from here: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp. Currently I'm going trough the libs for parsing CSV files. Of them, I find this one particularly interesting: https://github.com/vincentlaucsb/csv-parser. Because of well-commented files. I hope it helps.
In Ask HN: Good C++ code bases to read?
vehemos·Mar 7, 2018
Also in case anyone is going to suggest something project-like please something in the direction of HFT/OS/Systems related as opposed to game programming? There are loads of stuff out there for C++ related to game programming. For OP: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/the-definitive-c-... Also some C++ related YT channels such as TheChernoProject, CppCon etc Following the respective reddit and slack communities is also extremely helpful. Also get your hands dirty with this: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos or https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp There is more but this should do. Oh I almost forgot: https://ishansharma.github.io/twitter-mentors/ http://stephaniehurlburt.com/blog/2016/11/14/list-of-enginee... https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/889004724669661184 Good Luck! :-)
In Ask HN: Best way to learn modern C++?
btschaegg·Jan 9, 2017
If you like to watch language conference talks to get updates about the state of the language, there are plenty of recordings on Youtube. Look for: CppCon, Meeting C++, Microsoft's "Going native" I can personally recommend any talk by: Bjarne Stroustrup, Scott Meyers, Stephan Lavavej, Sean Parent, Andrei Alexandrescu Of course, there are many more gems (e.g. Chandler Carruth's talks are great if you are interested in a compiler author's perspective). As far as reading materials go, I know of two books that seem to cater to your background: Stroustrup: A tour to C++ (http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html) Meyers: Effective modern C++ (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920033707.do) I personally only own the second one, but have already heard good things about the first one as well. The C++ core guidelines (work in progress on http:/
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/isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines) should certainly also be worth a read. Of course, for actual practice, reading/contributing to open source code seems like a good start. Maybe have a look at this list: https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp/blob/master/README.md Edit: The "Awesome C++" list also has a "Resources" section that links to even more material...
In Best way to (re)learn modern C++ as its own language?

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