awesome-modern-cpp

(Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11/17/20]

(Bjarne Stroustrup) [C++11]

(Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]

(Scott Meyers) [C++11/14]

C++ Core Guidelines

(Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter) [C++11/14/17] - Guidelines for using modern C++

(Anthony Williams) [C++11/14/17] - Reference and guide to writing multi-threaded code with standard C++

(Nicolai M. Josuttis) [C++17] - Giving guidance on how to use Language and Library Features of C++17

(Craig Scott) - A practical guide for using CMake to build your C++ projects

(Changkun Ou) - The book claims to be "On the Fly". Its intent is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the relevant features regarding modern C++ (before 2020s)

( , ) - The first podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers!

( , ) - Comments on c++ and issues of interest to c++ programmers

Educational videos by Jason Turner

The C++ subreddit

The C++ Slack workspace

A subreddit for C++ questions and answers

/ / / / - Stackoverflow questions about C++

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Talks from the C++ Conference

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Talks from the C++Now conference

Guidelines and thoughts about C++

John Regehr, Professor of Computer Science, University of Utah, USA

Expressive Code in C++

A regular series of C++ programming problems created and written by Herb Sutter

Older Guru of the Week posts

Write clean and maintainable C++

A blog looking at developing software for real-time and embedded systems

Herb Sutter on software development

-Scott Meyers' Professional Activities and Interests

Collaborative Collection of C++ Best Practices

A repository of modern C++ patterns

🔥 - C++ reference

Learn C++ by Example!

ModernCppStarter

A template for kick-starting modern C++ projects using CMake, CI, code coverage, clang-format, reproducible dependency management and more

modern-cpp-template

A template for modern C++ projects using CMake, Clang-Format, CI, unit testing and more, with support for downstream inclusion

cmake_template

A template CMake project to get you started with C++ and tooling

Pitchfork

Pitchfork is a Set of C++ Project Conventions

Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ code (compliant to C++11) designed to augment the C++ standard library

Collection of C++ libraries

Folly

Facebook Open-source Library

The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems

nonstd-lite

Parent of *-lite repositories, a migration path to post-C++11 features for pre-C++11 environments

xtd

Modern C++17/20 framework to create console (CLI), forms (GUI like WinForms) and tunit (unit tests like Microsoft Unit Testing Framework) applications on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and android

Approval Tests for C++

Native ApprovalTests for C++ on Linux, Mac and Windows

autocheck

QuickCheck and SmallCheck clones for C++

A header-only framework for C++11 that wants to make working with unit tests a pleasant experience

C++20 μ(micro)/Unit Testing framework, single-header, without need for macros

Boost testing framework

Catch

🔥 - A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD

clean-test

A modern C++-20 testing framework

doctest

🚀 - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20 single-header testing framework for unit tests and TDD

Fakeit

C++ mocking made easy. A simple yet very expressive, headers only library for c++ mocking

Googletest

Google Testing and Mocking Framework

Mull

Practical mutation testing tool for C and C++

rapidcheck

QuickCheck clone for C++

snitch

Lightweight C++20 testing framework

Celero

C++ Benchmark Authoring Library/Framework

Google Benchmark

🌟 - A microbenchmark support library

hayai

the C++ benchmarking framework

Nonius

A C++ micro-benchmarking framework. C++ Benchmark Authoring Library/Framework

nanobench

Simple, fast, accurate single-header microbenchmarking functionality for C++11/14/17/20

fmtlog

A fmtlib-style logging library with latency in nanoseconds

spdlog

Fast C++ logging library

loguru

A lightweight and flexible C++ logging library

concurrentqueue

A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11

Cpp-Taskflow

Modern C++ Parallel Task Programming Library

Junction

Concurrent data structures in C++

MPMCQueue

A bounded multi-producer multi-consumer lock-free queue written in C++11

SPSCQueue

A bounded single-producer single-consumer wait-free and lock-free queue written in C++11

Threading Building Blocks (TBB) is a C++ template library developed by Intel for parallel programming on multi-core processors. Using TBB, a computation is broken down into tasks that can run in parallel. The library manages and schedules threads to execute these tasks

execq

Smart queue that executes tasks in threadpool-like manner (serial / concurrent) in C++11

concurrencpp

A general concurrency library containing tasks, executors, timers and C++20 coroutines to rule them all

json

🥇 - JSON for Modern C++

jsoncpp

A C++ library for interacting with JSON

toml++

A header-only C++17 library for parsing TOML v0.5.0 and later

tinytoml

-A header only C++11 library for parsing TOML

yaml-cpp

A YAML parser and emitter in C++

cpptoml

A header-only library for parsing TOML configuration files

cereal

A C++11 library for serialization

cista

A C++17 library for high-performance zero-copy binary serialization

simdjson

Accelerate the parsing of JSON per se using commonly available SIMD instructions

Boost.JSON

A JSON library with robust support for custom allocators

hjson-cpp

A C++11 library for reading and writing Hjson and/or JSON files

json_struct

High performance, single header JSON parser, parsing directly to and from C++ structs

daw_json_link

Fast, convenient JSON serialization and parsing in C++

Small, safe and fast formatting library

Inja

A Template Engine for Modern C++

Mustache

Mustache text templates in C++11

tinyformat.h

Minimal, type safe printf replacement library for C++

pprint

Pretty Printer for Modern C++

sol2

C++ library binding to Lua

An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++

pybind11

Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

Beast

HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

cpprestsdk

The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services

cpr

C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests

A Fast and Easy to use microframework for creating webservers (inspired by Python Flask)

C++20-based JSON, HTML, text and PNGs over HTTP; simple way to embed a server into your application to provide a web-based UI

Drogon

A C++14/17 based, high-performance HTTP application framework

oat++

High-performance Web framework (C++11, zero-dependency)

An elegant C++ REST framework

restbed

Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++11 applications

mongo-cxx-driver

C++ Driver for MongoDB

redox

Modern, asynchronous, and wicked fast C++11 client for Redis

sqlite_orm

powerful header only SQLite3 ORM library for C++14

sqlite3pp

C++ wrapper of SQLite3 API

sqlpp11

A type safe SQL template library for C++

libpqxx

The official C++ client API for PostgreSQL

TinyORM

Modern C++ ORM library

The modern C++ library for sequence analysis (C++17, C++20)

ASAP

header-only library to parse, display, operate and iterate on dates

BigIntegerCPP

A C++11 large integer library with effective high performance, simplistic in nature and also clean in the eyes

An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++

Cinder is a free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++

Conduit

High Performance Streams Based on Coroutine TS

cppitertools

itertools (python) implementation for C++14

cxxopts

Lightweight C++ command line option parser

date

A date and time library based on the C++11/14/17

docopt.cpp

docopt creates beautiful command-line interfaces

EnTT

A header-only, fast and, reliable entity-component system (ECS) for modern C++

Font Chef

A C99 and C++14 library to cook fonts and render text

HashLibPlus

A C++11 library that provides an easy to use interface for computing hashes and checksums of strings, files, streams, bytearrays and untyped data to mention but a few. It also supports Incremental Hashing

IntX

A C++11 port of IntX arbitrary precision Integer library with speed, about O(N * log N) multiplication/division algorithms implementation

iod

Meta programming utilities for C++14

Magic Enum

Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code

Wise Enum

Static reflection for enums similar to Magic Enum but works with C++ 11/14/17

Nameof

A header-only C++17 library provides nameof macros and functions to obtain the simple name of variable, type, function, macro, and enum

PEGTL

Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library (C++11, header-only)

random

A simple, convenient, header only Random for modern C++

rang

A simple, modern & header only C++11 library for colors in your terminal

range-v3

Experimental range library for C++11/14/17

SimpleBaseLib4CPP

A simple C++11 Base Encoding library that provides at the moment support for encoding and decoding various bases such as Base16, Base32 (various variants), Base58 (various variants), Base64 (various variants). [MIT]

simple_match

Simple header only pattern matching for c++14

SRL-CPP

A Simple Regex Language builder library written in C++11 that provides an easy to use interface for constructing both simple and complex regex expressions. [MIT]

tweeny

A header only interpolation library with 30+ easing functions

Vireo

A lightweight and versatile video processing library by Twitter

indicators

Activity Indicators for Modern C++

AssociatedEnum

header-only library for C++ for enumerations with associated values

an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding

tabulate

Table Maker for Modern C++

🌟 - A tool to format C++ code

understands your C++ code and adds smart features to your editor: code completion, compile errors, go-to-definition and more

Interactively explore the assembly output of your C++ code

cquery

C/C++ language server supporting multi-million line code base, powered by libclang. Emacs, Vim, VSCode, and others with language server protocol support. Cross references, completion, diagnostics, semantic highlighting and more (No more commits since Nov 27, 2018)

ccls

C/C++/ObjC language server supporting cross references, hierarchies, completion and semantic highlighting, forked from cquery, which is under active development

irony-mode

A C/C++ minor mode for Emacs powered by libclang

modern-cpp-font-lock-mode

Syntax highlighting support for Modern C++ with emacs

sanitizers

🌟 - This project is the home for Sanitizers: AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, LeakSanitizer, and more

is an instrumentation framework for building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail. You can also use Valgrind to build new tools

is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code. It provides unique code analysis to detect bugs and focuses on detecting undefined behaviour and dangerous coding constructs

🌟 - is a clang-based C++ “linter” tool. Its purpose is to provide an extensible framework for diagnosing and fixing typical programming errors, like style violations, interface misuse, or bugs that can be deduced via static analysis. clang-tidy is modular and provides a convenient interface for writing new checks

is a source code analysis tool that finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs. It implements path-sensitive, inter-procedural analysis based on symbolic execution technique

American fuzzy lop is a security-oriented fuzzer

A security oriented, feedback-driven, evolutionary, easy-to-use fuzzer with interesting analysis options

A library for coverage-guided fuzz testing

is a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

is a cross-platform build toolchain for developing and packaging C and C++ code

🌟 - Cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software

is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible

is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua

Buckaroo

Fully Decentralized Polyglot Package Manager for C++ and Friends

cget

CMake package retrieval

C/C++ package manager

CPM

A CMake script for setup-free cross-plattform dependency management

Hunter

Cross-platform package manager for C++

vcpkg

C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS

A cross-platform C/C++ package manager based on Xmake