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    Unified Communication X

    Unified Communication X

    Communication framework for data-centric high-performance applications

    Accelerate Your Network Performance with UCX. Collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source, production-grade communication framework for data-centric and high-performance applications. Unified Communication X (UCX) is an award winning, optimized production proven communication framework for modern, high-bandwidth and low-latency networks. UCX exposes a set of abstract communication primitives which utilize the best of available hardware resources and offloads. These include RDMA (InfiniBand and RoCE), TCP, GPUs, shared Memory, and network atomic operations. UCX facilitates rapid development by providing a high-level API, masking the low-level details, while maintaining high-performance and scalability. UCX implements best practices for transfer of messages of all sizes, based on accumulated experience gained from applications running on the world’s largest datacenters and supercomputers.
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    MARIE is a robotic development and integration environment focused on software reusability and exploitation of already available APIs and middlewares used in robotics. Its main purpose is to create a rapid-prototyping approach to robotics developments.
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    Criterion

    Criterion

    A cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework for the 21st century

    Most test frameworks for C require a lot of boilerplate code to set up tests and test suites -- you need to create a main, then register new test suites, then register the tests within these suites, and finally call the right functions. This gives the user great control, at the unfortunate cost of simplicity. Criterion follows the KISS principle, while keeping the control the user would have with other frameworks. Supports parameterized tests and theories. Progress and statistics can be followed in real time with report hooks. TAP output format can be enabled with an option. Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows (Compiling with MinGW GCC and Visual Studio 2015+). If you'd like to see Criterion included in your favorite distribution, please reach out to their package maintainers team. A default entry point is provided, no need to declare a main unless you want to do special handling.
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    AWS IoT Device Shadow library

    AWS IoT Device Shadow library

    Client library for using AWS IoT Shadow service on embedded devices

    The AWS IoT Device Shadow library enables you to store and retrieve the current state (the “shadow”) of every registered device. The device’s shadow is a persistent, virtual representation of your device that you can interact with from AWS IoT Core even if the device is offline. The device state is captured as its “shadow” within a JSON document. The device can send commands over MQTT to get, update and delete its latest state as well as receive notifications over MQTT about changes in its state. Each device’s shadow is uniquely identified by the name of the corresponding “thing”, a representation of a specific device or logical entity on the AWS Cloud. See Managing Devices with AWS IoT for more information on IoT "thing". More details about AWS IoT Device Shadow can be found in AWS IoT documentation. This library is distributed under the MIT Open Source License.
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    The All-in-One Commerce Platform for Businesses - Shopify

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    Flecs

    Flecs

    A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++

    Flecs is a fast and lightweight Entity Component System that lets you build games and simulations with millions of entities (join the Discord!). Here are some of the framework's highlights. Fast zero dependency C99 API. Modern type-safe C++11 API that doesn't use STL containers. Minimal ECS core with optional addons. Entire codebase builds in less than 5 seconds. Runs in the browser without modifications with emscripten. Cache-friendly archetype/SoA storage that can process millions of entities every frame. Supports entities with hundreds of components and applications with tens of thousands of archetypes. Automatic component registration that works out of the box across shared libraries/DLLs. First open-source ECS with full support for Entity Relationships! Write free functions with queries or run code automatically in systems. Compiles warning-free on 8 compilers on all major platforms, with CI running more than 4000 tests.
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    Inspektor Gadget

    Inspektor Gadget

    The eBPF tool and systems inspection framework for Kubernetes

    Inspektor Gadget is a collection of tools (or gadgets) to debug and inspect Kubernetes resources and applications. It manages the packaging, deployment, and execution of eBPF programs in a Kubernetes cluster, including many based on BCC tools, as well as some developed specifically for use in Inspektor Gadget. It automatically maps low-level kernel primitives to high-level Kubernetes resources, making it easier and quicker to find the relevant information.
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    Urbit

    Urbit

    An operating function

    Urbit is a personal server stack built from scratch. It has an identity layer (Azimuth), virtual machine (Vere), and operating system (Arvo). A running Urbit "ship" is designed to operate with other ships peer-to-peer. Urbit is a general-purpose, peer-to-peer computer and network. Urbit is for everyone, but sometimes it is easy to get lost in this universe. It solves the hard problems of implementing a peer-to-peer network (including identity, NAT traversal, and exactly-once delivery) in the kernel so app developers can focus on business logic. The entire OS is a single pure function that provides application developers with strong guarantees: automated persistence and memory management, repeatable builds, and support for hot code reloading. Urbit is a personal OS designed from scratch to run peer-to-peer applications. A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century.
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    nexmon

    nexmon

    The C-based Firmware Patching Framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi Chip

    The C-based Firmware Patching Framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi Chips enables Monitor Mode, Frame Injection, and much more. Nexmon is our C-based firmware patching framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi chips that enables you to write your own firmware patches, for example, to enable monitor mode with radiotap headers and frame injection. This repository mainly focuses on enabling monitor mode and frame injection on many chips. A real Wi-Fi jammer that allows to overlay ongoing frame transmissions with an arbitrary jamming signal. It uses the Wi-Fi chip as a Software-defined Radio to generate jamming signals. It allows using non-standard channels such as 80 MHz bandwidth in the 2.4 GHz bands. It allows to set of arbitrary transmission powers. It allows patching the D11 core's real-time MAC implementation. It allows to extract of CSI of up to 4x4 MIMO transmissions at 80 MHz bandwidth.
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    next-scripting

    next-scripting

    Next Scripting Framework (NSF)

    The Next Scripting Framework (NSF) was developed based on the notion of language-oriented programming. The framework allows a language developer to work with multiple object systems on top of Tcl in a single workspace. The developer can benefit from a rich and extensible set of predefined functions (typically implemented in C) which can be registered for use on objects and classes in a given object system. NSF provides a tool box for defining dynamic, object-oriented, and domain-specific languages. NSF ships with 3 fully scripted language definitions, containing XOTcl 2 and the Next Scripting language NX. NX is a highly flexible and object-oriented scripting language. It is a descendant of XOTcl and was designed based on 10 years of experience with XOTcl in projects containing several hundred thousand lines of code. While XOTcl was the first language designed to provide language support for design patterns, NX adds language-oriented programming and higher safety.
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    CD
    CD (Canvas Draw) is a platform-independent graphics library. It is implemented in several platforms using native graphics libraries: Windows (GDI) and X-Windows (XLIB). The canvas is an abstract surface that can be a window, an image or a metafile.
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    wxPHP

    wxPHP

    PHP bindings for the cross-platform GUI library wxWidgets.

    wxPHP is a php binding/wrapper for the cross-platform library wxWidgets, which gives you the ability to develop desktop applications using the php programming language. This applications can be executed on windows, linux and macosx using the same code base with a native look and feel. One of the ideas is that you can use your php web applications code base and logic to create native desktop applications that communicate to them transparently. This way you can give your users a seamless and native experience from the desktop while staying in sync with your web apps. There are many more use cases, but we invite you to download and try this project by your self. We hope everyone can enjoy it as much as we have enjoyed developing it.
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    IM
    IM is a toolkit for Digital Imaging. IM is based on 4 concepts: Image Representation, Storage, Processing and Capture. The main goal of the library is to provide a simple API and abstraction of images for scientific applications.
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    LCUI

    LCUI

    A small C library for building user interfaces with C, XML and CSS

    Build simple desktop apps with C, XML and CSS. LCUI is a simple GUI library, it is written in C, supports XML and CSS, you can use C, XML and CSS to build simple desktop applications, at present it is mainly supported by Windows, subsequent versions will improve support for Linux. If you have web development experience, then the use of LCUI will be easier to get started, because LCUI's XML, CSS, and element layout processing effects are similar to web browser, you can refer to the sample code on the left to learn about the effect. Supports the use of XML and CSS to describe the GUI layout and style, saving interface development time and maintenance costs. Support for Windows and Linux, you can write Windows Desktop apps and Universal Windows Platform apps, as well as Linux Desktop apps. To get started with LCUI, you can using lcui-cli to create an LCUI project, then compile and run it.
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    LuatOS

    LuatOS

    Powerful embedded Lua Engine for IoT devices, with many components

    Powerful embedded Lua Engine for IoT devices, with many components and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 128K Flash).
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    Skynet

    Skynet

    A lightweight online game framework

    Skynet is a lightweight online game framework which can be used in many other fields. Skynet is a lightweight framework designed for online game servers. Although from the feedback of the Community , it's not limited as a game server framework. On the Uses page, it shows a few projects that have used or currently using Skynet, but there are way more projects than listed. And welcome to be the next user. For Linux, install autoconf first for jemalloc. For FreeBSD , use gmake instead of make. Skynet now uses a modified version of lua 5.4.2 for multiple lua states. Official Lua versions can also be used as long as the Makefile is edited. With Socket API and SocketChannel , which makes it easier to implement socket pool and reconnect, you can use Skynet to call socket even asynchronously. Skynet doesn't force a specific protocol, you can come up with your own design.
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    Themis

    Themis

    Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection

    Cross-platform high-level cryptographic library. Themis helps to build simple and complex cryptographic features easily, quickly, and securely. It’s a perfect fit for multi-platform apps. Themis hides cryptographic details and eliminates popular mistakes. Themis provides ready-made building blocks (“cryptosystems”) for secure data storage, message exchange, socket connections, and authentication. Secure Cell is a multi-mode cryptographic container suitable for storing anything from encrypted files to database records. Use Secure Cell to encrypt data at rest. Secure Cell is built around AES-256-GCM, and AES-256-CTR. Secure Message is a simple encrypted messaging solution for the widest scope of applications. Use Secure Message to send encrypted and signed data from one user to another, from client to server, to prevent MITM attacks and avoid single secret leakage. Based on ECC + ECDSA / RSA + PSS + PKCS#7.
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    Vis

    Vis

    A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions

    Vis aims to be a modern, legacy-free, simple yet efficient editor, combining the strengths of both vi(m) and sam. It extends vi's modal editing with built-in support for multiple cursors/selections and combines it with sam's structural regular expression-based command language. A universal editor, it has decent Unicode support and should cope with arbitrary files, including large, binary, or single-line ones. Efficient syntax highlighting is provided using Parsing Expression Grammars, which can be conveniently expressed using Lua in the form of LPG. The editor core is written in a reasonable amount of clean (your mileage may vary), modern and legacy-free C code, enabling it to run in resource-constrained environments. The implementation should be easy to hack on and encourage experimentation. There is also a Lua API for in-process extensions. Vis strives to be simple and focuses on its core task: efficient text management.
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    WCDB

    WCDB

    Cross-platform database framework developed by WeChat

    WCDB is an efficient, complete, easy-to-use mobile database framework used in the WeChat application. It's currently available on iOS, macOS and Android. Easy-to-use. Through WCDB, you can get objects from database in one line code. WINQ (WCDB language integrated query), WINQ is a native data querying capability which frees developers from writing glue code to concatenate SQL query strings. ORM (Object Relational Mapping), WCDB provides a flexible, easy-to-use ORM for creating tables, indices and constraints, as well as CRUD through ObjC objects. Efficient. Through the framework layer and sqlcipher source optimization, WCDB have more efficient performance. Multi-threaded concurrency, WCDB supports concurrent read-read and read-write access via connection pooling. ORM/persistence solution via Room from Android Architecture Components. Concurrent access via connection pooling from modern Android framework. Repair toolkit for database corruption recovery.
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    A free Modbus RTU/ASCII implementation for embedded systems. It is designed to be portable and ports are available for ARM STR71x, ATMega168, Freescale/Motorola Coldfire MCF5235, TI-MSP430, LPC214X, Z8Encore, Win32 and Linux.
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    CPoll based C++ server pages

    Server side scripting language similar to ASP and PHP, but using C++.

    CPPSP (C++ Server Pages) is an open source web application framework similar to ASP.NET. It features a template parser that parses, compiles, and loads CPPSP pages automatically at runtime. CPPSP pages have a very similar syntax to ASP and ASP.NET, where all code is considered HTML by default, and server-side active code can be embedded using "<% ... %>". CPPSP is built upon the CPoll asynchronous I/O and utility library, which offers simple I/O abstraction, network abstraction, memory management, and container classes. CPPSP project home page: http://xa.us.to/cppsp/index.cppsp Main development happens on github at: https://github.com/xaxaxa/workspace/ Documentation is currently being worked on, but there is a doxygen reference at: http://xa.us.to/cppsp/doxygen/html/classcppsp_1_1_page.html GCC 4.7 or above is required even for the binary release because .cppsp pages need to be compiled at runtime. CPPSP currently only supports linux (due to the use of epoll).
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    Prosper is a web application development framework to augment Prolog applications with a web interface. It supports control flow in visual logic and promotes a clear separation of model from view.
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    OpenGL Software Development Kit

    Utility libraries for working with OpenGL.

    The Unofficial OpenGL SDK is a collection of utility libraries designed to make it easy to learn the exciting world of 3D programming with the OpenGL library. This project is not associated with The Khronos Group.
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    A software toolkit for using the EPCglobal Low Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) to communicate with conforming RFID readers.
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    OCILIB - C and C++ Driver for Oracle

    OCILIB - C and C++ Driver for Oracle

    Open source C and C++ library for accessing Oracle Databases

    OCILIB is an open source and cross platform Oracle Driver that delivers efficient access to Oracle databases. It offers a full featured, easy and productive API. Written in ISO C and C++ on top of OCI, OCILIB runs on all Oracle platforms. NOTE : The project has moved to GitHub ! Website URL : http://www.ocilib.net GitHub URL : https://github.com/vrogier/ocilib
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    LOVE is a free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua.
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