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awesome-cpp
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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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What it is

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

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

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
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

What Hacker News says

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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...
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