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rigtorp / awesome-modern-cpp

awesome-modern-cpp

A collection of resources on modern C++

10Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13.2KGitHub stars
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A collection of resources on modern C++

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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, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-01 09:47:15 UTC to 2023-01-17 03:37:15 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 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): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
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 UTC101
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 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I started a few months ago a personal home finance manager which includes other nice things - in Flutter (!!!). Then I decided to switch to Python and Qt because Flutter for desktop is still not a thing, and finally to c++ and qt6, because on my Mac a simple app took a lot of time to boot (> 5 seconds) and an idle window, not hello world, was using 70MB of ram. Blame it on pyinstaller or whatever other reason, well, it's then that I decided that for my own hobby project without (paid) deadlines I don't have to follow trends like Electron or easier alternatives like PySide just to "deliver something". I want to provide a low-memory low-cpu usage alternative and possibly something I can also install on mobile as well. I always wanted to learn C++ and never got the chance to use it for work, so I started reading the most significant books an
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d resources suggested by [0], including learning how modern projects do things - on this, Jason Turner's template comes handy. In the beginning it was tough, and at times it still is, however I am getting more and more familiar with the way things are done. At first I chose Meson for "simplicity" but it took me a while to realise that Cmake is actually pretty easy as well, so I switched to Cmake and started using Conan. My project setup is slowly converging to [1] - I couldn't just use it without having any knowledge about c++. I am happy that someone packaged a lot of good and modern practices in such a repo. (I know they are good because the approach is quite common with other languages/technologies too). There is way more to learn than with other languages, but it's interesting. Plus, i watched one or two videos from the creator of the language, and I like his philosophy of "freedom", which I believe is one of the main issues nowadays with c++, as most developers just want a prepackaged set of tools and APIs to develop and deliver fast, without thinking too much - c++ clearly doesn't get along with this type of developer. The project consists of: - C++20 with Clang - clang-format - clang-tidy - project_options with dev mode and other sanitizers on - Cmake/ninja - Conan - lots of nice things provided by the - catch2 - qt6 - TOML for internal configuration - Sqlite3 for DB - github/actions for CI/CD I still haven't use Valgrind, still an amateur afterall:) [0]: https://github.com/rigtorp/awesome-modern-cpp [1]: https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/gui_starter_template
In Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?

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