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Top 23 C++ Window Projects
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
Microsoft Terminal
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ImHex
🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
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x64dbg
An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Several months have passed since the last part was posted. Maintainers of x64dbg have continued to improve its functionality. They also opened a task to update the development tools. So in this post, we will continue the analysis based on commit f518e50 code and, where possible, we'll compare it with the commit 9785d1a, which is accurate at the time of writing.
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Project mention: Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-15
> Launching something as simple as the calculator takes a second or two to load in. What could it possibly be doing to warrant such a long load time?
Currently, telemetry [1]. Soon, "AI" probably.
[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148
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Go to https://cmder.app, download and extract the cmder zip where ever suits you, next checkout this posts How cmder made my life easier - part I and part II where you can find details on how to install cmder and configure your own aliases.
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winget-cli
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
Project mention: GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-19Microsoft seems to use a similar bot themselves, not sure how it is called or whether it is OSS: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4765#issuecom...
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Project mention: 16 Best Open Source Software in 2025: From Text Editing to Media Playback - Ultimate Free Tools Guide🛠🔥🔥 | dev.to | 2025-01-09
1. Notepad++
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FreeCAD
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
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keepassxc
KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.
Project mention: Passkey marketing is lying to you (it's simple) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-04Oof, I found a whole ton of anti-open-source-software quotes on the related Github issue https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406 :
> When required, the authenticator must perform user verification (PIN, biometric, or some other unlock mechanism). If this is not possible, the authenticator should not handle the request.
> [A passkey provider certification process] is currently being defined and is almost complete.
> This implementation is not spec compliant and has the potential to be blocked by relying parties.
> Then you should require its use when passkeys are enabled ... [You may be blocked because] you have a passkey provider that is known to not be spec compliant.
> I suspect we'll see [biometrics] required by regulation in some geo-regions.
> I see a lot of misinformation and incorrect guesses about the intentions of various parties in the recent threads. If it would be helpful, I'm willing to have a [private, non-public] call with interested parties to try and answer some of the questions that have been raised to ensure we have a common technical understanding of FIDO/WebAuthn.
I felt reasonably positive about Passkeys while writing this blog post, but continuing to read the spec authors' insistence that only Big Tech may handle these problems is extremely worrying. I really want to like this feature, but the authors are acting like complete jerks and driving me away.
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Cocos2d
Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
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MMKV
An efficient, small mobile key-value storage framework developed by WeChat. Works on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and POSIX.
react-native-mmkv is a wrapper around MMKV that allows you to easily implement secure storage in your app. It is arguably the fastest key-value storage for React Native apps
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5. OpenRCT2
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DearPyGui
Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies
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OpenFrameworks
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Project mention: OpenFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-09 -
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Project mention: Multipass: Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-28
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Project mention: Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-12
Looking into how this is built. I see they use something called Squirrel.Window for managing installs. I can't believe I've never heard of this until now! https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.
Fastest loading electron app I've ever seen.
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Project mention: OpenSCAD: The Programmer's Solid 3D CAD Modeller | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-14
Multi thread support is an experimental feature available on nightly build (and needing to be enabled). The bug tracking it is interesting to read, it has been a long journey... https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/391
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C++ Windows discussion
C++ Windows related posts
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Building a Cross-Platform Barcode Scanner for Mobile, Desktop, and Web with Flutter
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Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
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Show HN: LightCombatManager 3.0 – A simple combat manager for d20-based RPGs
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Microsoft won't support Office apps on Windows 10 after October 14th
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Passkey marketing is lying to you (it's simple)
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OpenLoco/OpenLoco: An open source re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion
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Streamline Your Winget Package Updates with PowerShell
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Window projects in C++? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | Windows Terminal | 96,663 |
2 | ImHex | 46,941 |
3 | x64dbg | 45,333 |
4 | calculator | 30,020 |
5 | cmder | 26,159 |
6 | winget-cli | 23,765 |
7 | notepad-plus-plus | 23,726 |
8 | FreeCAD | 22,914 |
9 | keepassxc | 22,159 |
10 | Cocos2d | 18,378 |
11 | MMKV | 17,663 |
12 | shadPS4 | 17,406 |
13 | TranslucentTB | 16,439 |
14 | nekoray | 14,323 |
15 | OpenRCT2 | 13,834 |
16 | DearPyGui | 13,683 |
17 | OpenFrameworks | 10,036 |
18 | AutoHotkey | 9,740 |
19 | ConEmu | 8,704 |
20 | olive | 8,367 |
21 | multipass | 8,061 |
22 | Squirrel | 7,487 |
23 | openscad | 7,410 |