C++

Leaderboard for 7 October 2026

The biggest C++ projects on GitHub, the ones gaining stars fastest right now, and the same leaderboard a year ago. We have recorded it every day since December 2018.

Most starred today

1 tensorflow/tensorflow An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone 201k +92 / 7d
2 ggml-org/llama.cpp LLM inference in C/C++ 131k +610 / 7d
3 react/react-native A framework for building native applications using React 127k +50 / 7d
4 electron/electron :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS 123k +72 / 7d
5 godotengine/godot Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine 118k +231 / 7d
6 microsoft/terminal The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place! 105k +55 / 7d
7 opencv/opencv Open Source Computer Vision Library 91k +82 / 7d
8 bitcoin/bitcoin Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree 90k +41 / 7d
9 nomic-ai/gpt4all GPT4All: Run Local LLMs on Any Device. Open-source and available for commercial use. 77k
10 tesseract-ocr/tesseract Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) 77k +80 / 7d
11 ocornut/imgui Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies 77k +84 / 7d
12 protocolbuffers/protobuf Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format 72k +18 / 7d
13 LadybirdBrowser/ladybird Truly independent web browser 66k +62 / 7d
14 WerWolv/ImHex 🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM. 55k +60 / 7d
15 ggml-org/whisper.cpp Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++ 54k +154 / 7d
16 nlohmann/json JSON for Modern C++ 51k +33 / 7d
17 ClickHouse/ClickHouse ClickHouse® is a real-time analytics database management system 50k +125 / 7d
18 x64dbg/x64dbg An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis. 50k +56 / 7d
19 zhongyang219/TrafficMonitor 这是一个用于显示当前网速、CPU及内存利用率的桌面悬浮窗软件，并支持任务栏显示，支持更换皮肤。 46k +65 / 7d
20 grpc/grpc C++ based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#) 45k +5 / 7d
21 zen-browser/desktop Welcome to a calmer internet 45k +140 / 7d
22 Light-City/CPlusPlusThings C++那些事 44k +7 / 7d
23 aria2/aria2 aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. 43k +112 / 7d
24 duckdb/duckdb DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system 42k +139 / 7d
25 LizardByte/Sunshine Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. 42k +238 / 7d

Climbing fastest this week

A different population from the leaderboard above. These are ranked by stars gained, so a project going from 200 to 2,000 shows up here and can never appear on a top-100 list by total stars.

1 boykopovar/AnyPS5 Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows +3.1k 8.4k total
2 harry7557558/spirula-studio Cross-vendor 3D Gaussian Splatting trainer - video to splat to mesh, Vulkan or CUDA. +265 1.5k total
3 microsoft/WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux +192 34k total
4 moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link) +136 19k total
5 shadps4-emu/shadPS4 PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD written in C++ +130 33k total
6 deepseek-ai/FlashMLA FlashMLA: Efficient Multi-head Latent Attention Kernels +87 13k total
7 zeldaret/tww Decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker +68 1.1k total
8 doitsujin/dxvk Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, 9, 10 and 11 for Linux / Wine +67 18k total
9 simdjson/simdjson Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks +53 24k total
10 Vita3K/Vita3K Experimental PlayStation Vita emulator +39 5.8k total

A year ago today

The same leaderboard on 7 October 2025. 1 of today's top ten were not in it.

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