Top 9 C++ live-coding Projects

Sonic Pi

111 10,507 8.8 C++

Code. Music. Live.

Project mention: Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/

corona

20 2,414 8.1 C++

Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK) (by coronalabs)

Project mention: LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-13

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.
Tidal

24 2,125 6.7 C++

Pattern language

Project mention: Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-01

RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus

5 2,110 5.7 C++

Change C++ code at runtime
cr

5 1,478 0.0 C++

cr.h: A Simple C Hot Reload Header-only Library
Bonzomatic

1 1,327 3.9 C++

Live shader coding tool and Shader Showdown workhorse (by Gargaj)
blink

1 1,030 5.2 C++

A tool which allows you to edit source code of any MSVC C++ project live at runtime (by crosire)

Project mention: A Modern C Development Environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

> 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running.
> 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function).
Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1].
And I would add:
> You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2]
[1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

WorkOS

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jet-live

3 400 1.8 C++

c++ hot code reload for linux and macos

Project mention: A Modern C Development Environment | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10

> 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running.
> 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function).
Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1].
And I would add:
> You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2]
[1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

BsodSurvivor

4 168 3.1 C++

This project aims to facilitate debugging a kernel driver in windows by adding support for a code change on the fly without reboot/unload, and more!

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).