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pybind11
C++2016–2026
pybind / pybind11

pybind11

Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

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What it is

Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

If you're into both C++ and Python, I recommend pybind11 [1] - Cython is a crutch and moreover C++ is not a first class citizen in it. For reasonably large codebases Cython…

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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, 8:43:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year25 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-23 13:47:09 UTC to 2026-02-22 09:55:10 UTC.

02468102016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 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): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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 UTC202
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 UTC202
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 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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ykl·Mar 3, 2020
Amazing work! Mitsuba has long been a staple of the rendering research world, and the new architecture that Mitsuba 2 brings is nothing short of revolutionary in many aspects. Mitubsa 2 allows for essentially writing complex path tracing code once and automatically being able to generate a traditional CPU-based scalar path tracer, an NVIDIA RTX accelerated path tracer, a vectorized path tracer, and fully differentiable path tracer, etc. A lot of the underlying heavy lifting for this capability can be found in a separate library by the same authors [1]. You may be familiar with pybind11 [1]; this is from the same author and uses pybind11 extensively. A lot of people don't know that the author of pybind11 is actually one of the top rendering researchers in the world. There's been an enormous amount of buzz about Mitsuba 2 in the rendering w
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orld since the paper [3] came out last year. I for one am pretty excited about diving into the code. [1] https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/enoki [2] https://github.com/pybind/pybind11 [3] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355089.3356498
In Mitsuba 2: A Retargetable Forward and Inverse Renderer

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