Awesome C++

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

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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]
• 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]
• ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development. [Apache2]
• Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook. [Apache2]
• FunctionalPlus - Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code. [MIT]
• GLib - GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. [LGPL]
• itlib - A collection of std-like single-header C++ libraries [MIT]
• JUCE - An all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform software. [Core-Module: ISC, Rest: GPL2/GPL3/Proprietary] website
• Kigs framework - A free and open source C++ modular multi-purpose cross platform RAD framework. [MIT] website
• libPhenom - libPhenom is an eventing framework for building high performance and high scalability systems in C. [Apache2]
• LibSourcey - C++11 evented IO for real-time video streaming and high performance networking applications. [LGPL]
• LibU - A multiplatform utility library written in C. [BSD]
• libxutils - Simple and yet powerful cross-platform C library providing data structures, algorithms and much more. [MIT]
• Loki - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms. [MIT]
• MiLi - Minimal headers-only C++ Library. [Boost]
• OpenFrameworks - A cross platform open source toolkit for creative coding in C++. [MIT] website
• Qt :zap: - A cross-platform application and UI framework. [GPL/LGPL/Proprietary] website
• Reason - A cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++. [GPL2]
• ROOT - A set of OO frameworks with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in a very efficient way. Used at CERN. [LGPL]
• rpp - Minimal Rust-inspired C++20 STL replacement. [MIT]
• SaneCppLibraries - a set of C++ platform abstraction libraries for macOS, Windows and Linux. [MIT] website
• Seastar - An advanced, open-source C++ framework for high-performance server applications on modern hardware. [Apache-2.0 License] seastar.io
• STLport - An exemplary version of STL. [Free]
• STXXL - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets. [Boost]
• tbox - A glib-like multi-platform c library. [Apache2] website
• Ultimate++ - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework. [BSD]
• Windows Template Library - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. [Public]
• Yomm2 - Fast, Orthogonal, Open multi-methods. Supersedes Yomm11 [Boost]

Artificial Intelligence

• ANNetGPGPU - A GPU (CUDA) based Artificial Neural Network library. [LGPL]
• btsk - Game Behavior Tree Starter Kit. [zlib]
• Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast. [LGPL]
• 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 acceleration. website
• flashlight - Flashlight is a fast, flexible machine learning library written entirely in C++. [BSD]
• Recast/Detour - (3D) Navigation mesh generator and pathfinder, mostly for games. [zlib]
• TensorFlow - An open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. [Apache]
• oneDNN - An open-source cross-platform performance library for deep learning applications. [Apache] website
• CNTK - Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit. [Boost]
• tiny-dnn - A header only, dependency-free deep learning framework in C++11. [BSD]
• Veles - Distributed platform for rapid Deep learning application development. [Apache]
• Kaldi - Toolkit for speech recognition. [Apache]

Asynchronous Event Loop

• Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming that provides developers with a consistent asynchronous model using a modern C++ approach. [Boost] website
• Boost.Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. [Boost] website
• C++ Actor Framework - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++. [BSD-3-Clause] website
• Ichor - An event queue which focuses on thread safety and provides dependency injection. [MIT]
• libev - A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. [BSD and GPL]
• libevent - An event notification library. [BSD]
• libhv - Cross-platform event loop library. [BSD]
• libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O. [BSD]
• promise-cpp - Header only library that implements Promise/A+ standard. [Anti-996]
• uvw - C++ wrapper for libuv. [MIT]

Audio

Audio, Sound, Music, Digitized Voice Libraries

• Amplitude Audio SDK - A cross-platform audio engine designed with the needs of games in mind. [Apache-2.0] website
• Aubio - A library for audio and music analysis.[GPL-3.0] website
• AudioFile - A simple C++ library for reading and writing audio files. [MIT]
• audioFlux - A C library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction. [MIT]
• dr_libs - Single file audio decoding libraries for C and C++. [Unlicense]
• FMOD - An easy to use crossplatform audio engine and audio content creation tool for games. [Free for non-commercial/Commercial]
• KFR - Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, FFT, FIR/IIR filters, Sample Rate Conversion. [GPL/Proprietary]
• LAME - LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder. [LGPL]
• libsndfile - C library with C++ wrapper for reading and writing files containing sampled sound through one standard library interface. [LGPL-2.1] website
• libsoundio - C library for cross-platform real-time audio input and output. [MIT] website
• Maximilian - C++ Audio and Music DSP Library.