Description
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.
We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are included in the C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and in the new C++11 Standard. C++11 also includes several more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1. More Boost libraries are proposed for standardization in C++17.
Since 2006 an intimate week long annual conference related to Boost called C++ Now has been held in Aspen, Colorado each May. Boost has been a participant in the annual Google Summer of Code since 2007.
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OpenFrameworks
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++. -
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins. -
Cinder
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++. -
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libPhenom
DISCONTINUED. libPhenom is an eventing framework for building high performance and high scalability systems in C. [Apache2] -
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ffead-cpp
Framework for Enterprise Application Development in c++, HTTP1/HTTP2/HTTP3 compliant, Supports multiple server backends -
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LibU
LibU is a multiplatform utility library written in C, with APIs for handling memory allocation, networking and URI parsing, string manipulation, debugging, and logging in a very compact way, plus many other miscellaneous tasks -
Loki
Loki is a C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms. -
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XPLPC - Cross Platform Lite Procedure Call
Cross Platform Lite Procedure Call - Support Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Web Assembly, Flutter, Kotlin, Python and More -
Windows Template Library
A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. [Public] -
GLib
GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. [LGPL] -
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] -
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] -
Cxxomfort
A small, header-only library that backports to C++03 some of the nifty C++11 goodies. [MIT]
WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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README
Boost C++ Libraries
The Boost project provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use and does not require attribution for binary use.
The project website is www.boost.org, where you can obtain more information and download the current release.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Boost README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.