Open Source C++ Stack

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  1. Google Test

    GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

    ''' Uchen core - ML framework ''' module(name = "uchen-core", version = "0.1", compatibility_level = 1) bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20240116.2") bazel_dep(name = "googletest", version = "1.14.0") git_override( module_name = "googletest", remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest.git", commit = "1d17ea141d2c11b8917d2c7d029f1c4e2b9769b2", ) bazel_dep(name = "google_benchmark", version = "1.8.3") git_override( module_name = "google_benchmark", remote = "https://github.com/google/benchmark.git", commit = "447752540c71f34d5d71046e08192db181e9b02b", ) # Dev dependencies bazel_dep(name = "hedron_compile_commands", dev_dependency = True) git_override( module_name = "hedron_compile_commands", remote = "https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor.git", commit = "a14ad3a64e7bf398ab48105aaa0348e032ac87f8", )

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  3. include-what-you-use

    A tool for use with clang to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files

    Linters keep the code base consistent and help to catch a lot of issues and even bugs way before the compiler is ran. Clang-Tidy is the one I am relying on. IWYU is really helpful in keeping the includes clean, reducing number of dependencies and reducing the build times.

  4. gRPC

    C++ based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

    grpc.io

  5. Bazel

    a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system

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  6. benchmark

    A microbenchmark support library

    ''' Uchen core - ML framework ''' module(name = "uchen-core", version = "0.1", compatibility_level = 1) bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20240116.2") bazel_dep(name = "googletest", version = "1.14.0") git_override( module_name = "googletest", remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest.git", commit = "1d17ea141d2c11b8917d2c7d029f1c4e2b9769b2", ) bazel_dep(name = "google_benchmark", version = "1.8.3") git_override( module_name = "google_benchmark", remote = "https://github.com/google/benchmark.git", commit = "447752540c71f34d5d71046e08192db181e9b02b", ) # Dev dependencies bazel_dep(name = "hedron_compile_commands", dev_dependency = True) git_override( module_name = "hedron_compile_commands", remote = "https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor.git", commit = "a14ad3a64e7bf398ab48105aaa0348e032ac87f8", )

  7. abseil-cpp

    Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

    abseil.io

  8. bazel-compile-commands-extractor

    Goal: Enable awesome tooling for Bazel users of the C language family.

    ''' Uchen core - ML framework ''' module(name = "uchen-core", version = "0.1", compatibility_level = 1) bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20240116.2") bazel_dep(name = "googletest", version = "1.14.0") git_override( module_name = "googletest", remote = "https://github.com/google/googletest.git", commit = "1d17ea141d2c11b8917d2c7d029f1c4e2b9769b2", ) bazel_dep(name = "google_benchmark", version = "1.8.3") git_override( module_name = "google_benchmark", remote = "https://github.com/google/benchmark.git", commit = "447752540c71f34d5d71046e08192db181e9b02b", ) # Dev dependencies bazel_dep(name = "hedron_compile_commands", dev_dependency = True) git_override( module_name = "hedron_compile_commands", remote = "https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor.git", commit = "a14ad3a64e7bf398ab48105aaa0348e032ac87f8", )

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  10. Protobuf

    Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

    This is a language-agnostic serialization library that is much faster than JSON and provides way more compact representation. There are several implementations with different features and trade offs. μpb is a very lightweight C++ implemantion that uses arena allocations.

  11. highway

    Performance-portable, length-agnostic SIMD with runtime dispatch

    GitHub

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