Top 5 C++ Fun Projects

tinyrenderer

60 19,305 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

Project mention: From scratch OpenGL and shaders with raw Xlib | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

I don’t think that exists (I sure would like for it to), but until it does you could amuse yourself with:
- A 500-line (non-OpenGL-compatible) 3D rasterizer: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki.
- A “hello Wayland” app written in C without libwayland or anything else: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/wayland_from_scratch.html.
- A “hello X11” app written in x86-64 assembly(!) without libX11, libxcb, or anything else: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html.

tinyraytracer

9 4,880 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course

Project mention: But can it raytrace? | /r/termux | 2023-10-16

Source: https://github.com/ssloy/tinyraytracer

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
tinykaboom

1 2,309 0.0 C++

A brief computer graphics / rendering course
collab3

5 11 0.0 C++

CollabVM 3 repository.
dwarven-outpost

1 10 3.9 C++

A programming game, in which your goal is to help a group of dwarves establish a small outpost in the middle of a dangerous forest.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-03-30.