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

• Awesome C++
  • Standard Libraries
  • Frameworks
  • Audio
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Concurrency
  • Containers
  • Cryptography
  • Database
  • GUI
  • Graphics
  • Imaging
  • Internationalization
  • JSON
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Mocking
  • Multimedia
  • Networking
  • Serialization
  • Testing
  • Web Application Framework
  • XML
• Compilers
• Software
  • Integrated Development Environments
• Resources
  • C++ Websites
  • C++ Books
  • C++ Videos
• Contributing

• 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..

C++ generic frameworks and libraries.

• Apache C++ Standard Library - A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components.
• ASL - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries.
• Boost - A large collection of generic C++ libraries.
• BDE - The BDE Development Environment from Bloomberg L.P.
• Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
• Cxxomfort - A small, header-only library that backports to C++03 some of the nifty C++11 goodies.
• Dlib - A general purpose cross-platform C++ library designed using contract programming and modern C++ techniques.
• ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development.
• Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
• JUCE - An all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform software..
• LibSourcey - C++11 evented IO for real-time video streaming and high performance networking applications.
• LibU - A multiplatform utility library written in C.
• Loki - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.
• MiLi - Minimal headers-only C++ Library.
• openFrameworks - An open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
• Qt - A cross-platform application and UI framework.
• 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++.
• STXXL - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets.
• Ultimate++ - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework.
• Windows Template Library - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components.
• Yomm11 - Open multi-methods for C++11.

##Artificial Intelligence

• Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast.
• Neu - A C++ 11 framework, collection of programming languages, and multipurpose software system designed for: the creation of artificial intelligence applications.

• Intel TBB - Intel® Threading Building Blocks.
• OpenMP - The OpenMP API.
• Thrust - A parallel algorithms library which resembles the C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
• HPX - A general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications of any scale.

• C++ B-tree - A template library that implements ordered in-memory containers based on a B-tree data structure.

Graphic User Interface

• GTK+ - A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
• gtkmm - The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+.
• wxWidgets - a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base.
• Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications.
• QwtPlot3D - A feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D-widgets.

• Ogre 3D - One of the most popular open-source graphics rendering engines.

• IBM ICU - A set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support.
• gettext - GNU `gettext'.

• OpenCV - Computer Vision.

• googlemock - A library for writing and using C++ mock classes.

• SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library.
• SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer.

• ACE - An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++.
• Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming.
• Casablanca - C++ REST SDK.
• cpp-netlib - A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming.
• POCO - C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems.

• protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format.

• CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit.
• googletest - Google C++ Testing Framework.

• CppCMS - A Free High Performance Web Development Framework (not a CMS).
• Wt - A C++ library for developing web applications.

List of C/C++ compilers

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• Intel C++ Compiler - .
• Microsoft Visual C++ - .

Software for creating a development environment.

nominal IDEs.

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• Eclipse CDT - .
• KDevelop - .
• Microsoft Visual Studio - .
• NetBeans - .
• Qt Creator - .
• Xcode - .

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your C++ development skills and knowledge.

Useful C++ related websites.

• C++ reference - C++98, C++03, C++11, C++14 reference.

Fantastic C++ related books.

Fantastic C++ related articles.

• C++Now 2014 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2014.
• C++Now 2013 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2013.
• C++Now 2012 Presentations - Presentation materials presented at C++Now 2012.

Fantastic C++ related videos.

Collection of useful codes

• C/C++ Awesome Pack - Contains some awesome c++ codes, packed in one.

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