Top 22 C++ Text Projects

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1. imtui

   1 14 3,258 2.7 C++

   ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface C++ Library

   

   Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06

   imtui looks interesting. A text based backend for Dear ImGui. Never tested it myself though.

   https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui

2. InfluxDB

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3. utfcpp

   2 3 1,686 4.7 C++

   UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way

   

4. tgfx

   3 1 1,241 9.6 C++

   A lightweight 2D graphics library for rendering texts, geometries, and images with high-performance APIs that work across various platforms.

   

5. Beeftext

   4 5 1,083 1.9 C++

   A text snippet tool for Windows.

   

6. FINAL CUT

   5 29 1,063 8.5 C++

   The modern text-based widget toolkit.

   

7. lexy

   6 21 1,057 7.2 C++

   C++ parsing DSL

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Less Slow C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-18

   std::regex is such a nightmare, I didn't take the time to run the code myself but I'd be curious if you would see the same delta if you swapped it for boost::regex or re2.

   I think there's a case to be made for libaries like https://github.com/foonathan/lexy and/or https://github.com/boostorg/parser instead of reaching for a regex in the first place.

8. zep

   7 1 970 5.8 C++

   Zep - An embeddable editor, with optional support for using vim keystrokes. (by Rezonality)

   

   Project mention: Zep: Renderer Agnostic Embeddable Editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-17

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10. thorvg

    8 6 923 9.9 C++

    Thor Vector Graphics is a lightweight portable library used for drawing vector-based scenes and animations including SVG and Lottie. It can be freely utilized across various software platforms and applications to visualize graphical contents.

    

    Project mention: ThorVG – lightweight portable vector graphics library | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-12

11. nanoprintf

    9 5 693 5.6 C++

    The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set.

    

12. ewig

    10 3 538 0.0 C++

    The eternal text editor — Didactic Ersatz Emacs to show immutable data-structures and the single-atom architecture

    

13. react-native-animateable-text

    11 1 412 7.9 C++

    🆎 A fork of React Native's <Text/> component that supports Reanimated Shared Values as text!

    

14. text

    12 10 323 4.7 C++

    A spicy text library for C++ that has the explicit goal of enabling the entire ecosystem to share in proper forward progress towards a bright Unicode future. (by soasis)

    

15. Volvo-melbus

    13 1 76 4.4 C++

    Volvo MELBUS Bluetooth audio input and remote control with Arduino Nano

    

16. obs-text-slideshow

    14 2 64 2.9 C++

    OBS plugin inspired by the built in image slideshow, except for text sources instead. Both Free Type 2 and GDI+ are supported.

    

17. Lingo

    15 1 30 0.0 C++

    Text encoding for modern C++

    

18. fql

    16 6 20 3.1 C++

    Formatted text processing with SQL

    

19. double-conversion

    17 0 15 4.8 C++

    A fast Haskell library for converting between double precision floating point numbers and text strings. It is implemented as a binding to the V8-derived C++ double-conversion library.

    

20. lambda-options

    18 0 8 0.0 C++

    Declarative command-line parser for C++, Haskell, and Typescript

    

21. charsetdetect-ae

    19 0 7 0.0 C++

    Character set detection for Haskell

    

22. text_steering

    20 1 6 0.0 C++

    Text drawing and steering behavior using Craig Reynolds algorithms

    

23. DXMD-Translations

    21 1 3 4.7 C++

    Language translation framework for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Deus Ex: Breach

    

24. pugixml

    22 0 1 0.0 C++

    pugixml binding for haskell.

    

25. SaaSHub

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