Libraries & Frameworks

Core Frameworks

Kitchensink Frameworks

• https://github.com/facebook/folly
• https://abseil.io/
• https://github.com/bkaradzic/bx
• https://github.com/septag/sx
• MUtils Useful C++
• Misc C Headers
• bitsquid foundation library
• foundation lib: rpmalloc's author's foundation lib

Allocators

• rpmalloc
• mimalloc

Core Libs

• Filesystem: https://icculus.org/physfs/
• Immutable Data Structures: https://sinusoid.es/immer/introduction.html
• Python Binding: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

Containers

• EASTL
• https://github.com/hogliux/semimap
• https://github.com/serge-sans-paille/frozen
• https://github.com/lemire/EWAHBoolArray
• https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/CRoaring

Hashing

• Fast hash tables https://abseil.io/about/design/swisstables
• https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash
• xxHash

Reflection

• https://cista.rocks/
• https://github.com/Manu343726/ctti CTTI Compile Time Type Information
• https://github.com/apolukhin/magic_get
• https://github.com/Neargye/nameof
• https://github.com/onqtam/cmake-reflection-template
• https://github.com/preshing/FlexibleReflection/tree/part1
• RTTR
• StaticTypeInfo: Compile time type info
• Compile-time type info using constexpr
• Refureku: C++ reflection library based on Kodgen
• Kodgen: C++ parser & codegen
• clReflect: C++ Reflection using clang

C++ Templates

• https://github.com/TartanLlama/optional
• https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected
• https://github.com/TartanLlama/tl
• https://github.com/tacticalmelonfarmer/cxl
• https://github.com/doom/meta
• callable_traits
• function type traits

C++ Utilities

• Functional programming: https://github.com/Dobiasd/FunctionalPlus
• magic enum
• Global Static objects: https://github.com/graphitemaster/0xABAD1DEA
• Asset Lib: https://github.com/gpakosz/PPK_ASSERT
• Debug Print Expression Macros: ocs.google.com/

C++ Type erasure

• boost te
• dyno
• liberasure
• Facebook Poly
• dynamix

Dev/Debug

CPU/Memory Profilers

• Tracy Profiler
• https://github.com/milostosic/MTuner
• https://www.puredevsoftware.com/mempro/Features.htm

Multi-Threading

Task/Job System

• Taskflow Task library: https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow

Coroutines

• libaco: A blazing fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library
• https://github.com/Tencent/libco
• Stackless coroutine

Serialization

• https://cista.rocks/
• https://uscilab.github.io/cereal/

JSON

• JSON5: JSON for Humans
• rapidjson

Math

General

• Math library: https://github.com/nfrechette/rtm
• cglm: better version of glm
• Procedural math tricks: https://github.com/zalo/MathUtilities - grab bag of some of the neat math and physics tricks
• Curves Library: https://github.com/ethz-asl/curves/tree/master/curves/include/curves
• Splines/Curves library: https://github.com/andrewwillmott/splines-lib

Geometry

• libigl: header only C++ geometry processing library
• geometry-central: from Keenan Crane/GeometryProcess lab, containing implementations of Keenan's papers

Database

• lmdb
• Firefox Design Review: Key-Value Storage: simple key-value storage based on LMDB
• LMDB vs BoltDB
• sqlightning
• libmdbx
• leveldb
• realm.io
• dntree: implementation showing how LDAP DNs can be stored in an lmdb database, structured as a hierarchical adjecency list
• sqlite orm

Compute/GPU

• https://github.com/imageworks/OpenShadingLanguage
• slang
• Falcor
• yocto-gl
• Blitz++ Multi-Dimensional Array Library: https://github.com/blitzpp/blitz
• https://github.com/mitsuba-renderer/enoki

Data Flow/Graph

• flexcore
• dspatch

Networking

• evpp

Platform

App Support

• Update patching, https://wyday.com/
• Logging: https://github.com/amrayn/easyloggingpp/tree/master
• Logging https://github.com/gabime/spdlog

OS Support

• Windows Implementation Libraries: https://github.com/microsoft/wil
• Api Hooking: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours

Hot reload

• Windows PE file parser: https://github.com/serge1/COFFI
• Blink: function level runtime patching with pdb+COFF reader, linker, etc
• Run code from object files:
• http://h3.gd/posts/how-not-to-use-dlls/
• https://github.com/h3r2tic/relocdll
• CR: single file header-only live reload solution for C, written in C++

Animation

Libs

• Ozz Animation Library
• Animation Compression Library

Skinning

• https://github.com/sansumbrella/Choreograph
• https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose
• Dem Bones: Skinning Decomposition
• https://github.com/damian0815/skellington
• Fast and Efficient Skinning of Animated Meshes: clean implementation in python
• Sparse Localized Deformation Components: extract sparse, spatially localized deformation modes from animated mesh sequence
• splocs implementation

Compilers

Parallel Programming

• Nvidia CCCL: unified Nvidia CUDA C++ Core Libraries for GPU-Accelerated
• Thrust: high-level GPU API for parallel algorithms/data structures library
• Thrust Project Page: C++ Parallel Algorithm Library with high-level API with GPU/CPU configurable backends e.g. CUDA, TBB, OpenMP
• CUB
• libcudacxx
• Nvidia CUDA-X: Nvidia GPU-Accelerated Libraries
• CppSPMD
• SPIRV-Cross: Intel's SPIR-V to ISPC translator; convert GPU Compute to CPU
• SPIRV-Cross Demo: compiling a GLSL compute shader -> SPIR-V -> ISPC
• SPIRV-Cross Live: live demo support in Shader Playground
• Taichi Programming Language

Algebraic Effects

• libhandler: algebraic effects and handlers in portable C99
• libmprompt: robust multi-prompt delimited control and effect handlers in C/C++

Parsing

• tree-sitter: incremental parser
• https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc: parser combinator
• http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/contents
• https://github.com/TheLartians/Parser
• https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL
• https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-peglib
• https://github.com/codeplea/tinyexpr
• https://github.com/foonathan/cppast

GPU/HLSL/Compute Specific

• https://github.com/Celtoys/ComputeBridge
• Shader debugger: https://github.com/dfranx/SHADERed
• Shader Writer & Shader AST https://github.com/DragonJoker/ShaderWriter
• HLSL Shader Parser/AST:
• https://github.com/dfranx/hlslparser
• https://github.com/Nomoresleep/hlslparser
• https://github.com/Thekla/hlslparser
• https://github.com/dfranx/glsl-parser

Code Gen/JIT/VM

• TinyC Compiler: https://bellard.org/tcc/
• Detours: https://github.com/microsoft/Detours
• DynamoRIO: Tracing JIT framework: dynamic binary instrumentation framework for the development of dynamic program analysis tools
• highlevel overview
• github
• Alternatives:
  • QBDI
  • Frida
  • Fermion: UI wrapper for Frida, a dynamic instrumentation toolkit
• Reflective DLL Injection: https://github.com/rokups/ReflectiveLdr
• https://github.com/BitFunnel/NativeJIT
• Zig: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replacement-gcc-clang.html
• https://github.com/dfranx/aGen
• https://github.com/dfranx/BlueVM
• https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/wiki/Alternatives
• AngelScript: https://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/documentation.html
• JIT
• http://www.llpe.org/
• EasyJit
  • https://github.com/jmmartinez/easy-just-in-time
  • https://blog.quarkslab.com/easyjit-just-in-time-compilation-for-c.html
• C/C++ live compilers
  • https://github.com/anael-seghezzi/ctoy#ctoy
  • https://root.cern.ch/cling
  • https://github.com/onqtam/rcrl
  • https://github.com/procedural/c_interactive
• Xbyak: C++ interface for JIT assembler
• DynAsm: LuaJIT preprocessor and tiny runtime library for creating assemblers and JIT compilers in C or C++

Decompiler

• RetDec
• COFFI
• Ghidra
• Software Reverse Engineering with Ghidra: video tutorial series
• Introduction to Decompiling C++ with Ghidra: abridged version of above
• Binary Ninja
• IDA Pro Decompiler Plugin
• HexRaysCodeXplorer
• Radare2
• Redare2 Book
• Reko
• rizin: UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset
• github
• cutter: Free and Open Source RE Platform powered by Rizin
• github

Debugger

• https://github.com/dfranx/ShaderDebugger
• Backtrace/Stacktrace: https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace

UI

Libs

• https://sinusoid.es/lager/index.html
• ImGui
• Manual: https://pthom.github.io/imgui_manual_online/manual/imgui_manual.html
• Net/Remote ImGui: https://github.com/sammyfreg/netImgui

Editors

• https://github.com/JSandusky/Blocks
• https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
• VSCode's Monaco Editor https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/index.html
• Text Engine https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
• Light Table: https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/tree/master
• https://github.com/mikesart/gpuvis
• https://github.com/directus/directus

Apps

• Imogen: https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/Imogen
• Blocks: https://github.com/JSandusky/Blocks

Widgets

General Widgets

• ImGui Useful Widget collection
• Graphing/Plotting: https://github.com/epezent/implot
• Imgui widget collection:
• https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki
• https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/labels/useful widgets
• https://github.com/Flix01/imgui/wiki/ImGui-Addons-Branch-Home
• Progress bar: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1901
• PIE Menu: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/434
• Knobs: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/942
• Toggle Button: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1537
• Alternating listview: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/labels/useful widgets
• Pinned Tooltip: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1345
• Filebrowser: https://github.com/AirGuanZ/imgui-filebrowser

Editor Widgets

• https://github.com/nlguillemot/arcball_camera
• https://github.com/nlguillemot/flythrough_camera
• https://github.com/glampert/debug-draw
• Gizmo:
• ImGuizmo (3d translation/rotation Gizmo) https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/ImGuizmo
• imGuiZMO.quat (3d translation/rotation Gizmo) https://github.com/BrutPitt/imGuIZMO.quat

Animation Widgets

• Bezier/Curve Editors: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/786
• Sequencer: https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/ImGuizmo
• Sequentity: https://github.com/alanjfs/sequentity

Property editor

• Imgui demo file
• https://gitlab.com/LIONant/properties
• https://alejandrohitti.com/projects/code-samples/entity-inspection/
• https://github.com/Csabix/imgui/tree/master/auto

Text Editors

• https://github.com/cmaughan/zep
• https://github.com/BalazsJako/ImGuiColorTextEdit

Debug Widgets

• Plotting widget: https://github.com/soulthreads/imgui-plot
• FlameGraphs: https://github.com/bwrsandman/imgui-flame-graph
• Metrics Widgets: https://github.com/GameTechDev/MetricsGui

Styling

• imgui-spectrum

Misc

• Excellent collection of useful nuggets/gems: https://github.com/CedricGuillemet/Imogen/projects/1
• https://github.com/Cmdu76/AwesomeCppGameDev
• https://awesomecpp.com/
• http://fffaraz.github.io/awesome-cpp/#debug
• https://github.com/raizam/gamedev_libraries
• https://github.com/betsegaw/windowwalker
• C++ Best Practices & Conventions: https://lefticus.gitbooks.io/cpp-best-practices/content/
• C++ Project Layout: https://api.csswg.org/bikeshed/?force=1&url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vector-of-bool/pitchfork/develop/data/spec.bs

Tips/Tricks/Gems

• _ReturnAddress() for debugging: http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=181
• Functional Property Modifiers
• https://twitter.com/Donzanoid/status/1164274159171584001
• https://gist.github.com/dwilliamson/8fb72ed4be7b5022b856eb4ff2d05d04