Transmission torrent client ported to C++

• Transmission

  254 11,383 9.7 C++

  Official Transmission BitTorrent client repository

  

• MySQL

  146 10,244 9.8 C++

  MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database.

  

Not a C/C++ programmer either, but I got an example. InnoDB was first released in 2001, and was ported from C to C++ in 2011: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/compare/78f4351..3a455...

• 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.

  

• c2rust

  46 3,673 9.5 Rust

  Migrate C code to Rust

  

I would go with a transpiler approach first (eg https://c2rust.com/) and then gradually transition pieces to use the Rust standard library and to safe code instead of the adhoc custom containers.

Still, that all would be predicated on having good Rust experience or using it as a learning experience and that may not be the motivation of the authors.

• abseil-cpp

  54 13,917 9.5 C++

  Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

  

STL has a lot of weird pitfalls. There was std::vector. Here you can see some pitfalls of std::unordered_map: <https://youtu.be/ncHmEUmJZf4?t=2220>. The whole talk is interesting to watch. In the beginning you can also see the puzzling design of std::unordered_map (puzzling because of the number of indirections).

I'd reach for abseil first: <https://abseil.io/>.

• transgui

  25 3,139 5.2 Pascal

  🧲 A feature rich cross platform Transmission BitTorrent client. Faster and has more functionality than the built-in web GUI.

  

There's also transmission-web and transmission-remote-gui. Both great if your torrent system is separate from your desktop.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui

• pixie

  22 725 4.0 Nim

  Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim. (by treeform)

• genny

  5 218 3.3 Nim

  Generate a shared library and bindings for many languages. (by treeform)

• 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.

  

• rtorrent

  43 4,004 0.0 C++

  rTorrent BitTorrent client

I've been using aria2c for some multithreaded HTTP downloading stuff recently. I surprisingly found it to get bottlenecked on a single core.

For torrents, I tend to just use rtorrent, which has worked perfectly for me for probably 15 years now. https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent. Nice, fast, doesn't seem to use many resources to get the job done.

• aria2

  114 33,525 7.5 C++

  aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

  

Exceptions can be avoided with the use of `noexcept` whenever we can do avoid them, especially in sensitive areas that we cannot risk exception throws.

> but I don't think GP deserved the downvotes for the speculation.

That's why I asked @squid_demon for a real example that possibly got bitten by it; else, it's simply an emotional reaction for favoring one tool over another.

If aria2 [1] that is implemented in C++ is extremely fast, then I can almost guarantee that transmission's refactoring in C++ will get there too, sooner or later.

[1] https://github.com/aria2/aria2

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