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Top 21 C++ OSX Projects
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OpenFrameworks
openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
Project mention: Ask HN: Who Are Your Favorite Photography and Generative Coding Artists? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-26 -
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- Project mention: Apple's new Processor Trace instrument is incredible | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-16
Intel has a Performance Monitoring Unit on its core that has significant overlap.
Forgetting this tool-space, but at least some of these tools can make use of that hardware:
https://github.com/intel/pcm https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools
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ChrysaLisp
Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more...
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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metal-cpp
Metal-cpp is a low-overhead C++ interface for Metal that helps developers add Metal functionality to graphics apps, games, and game engines that are written in C++.
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proteaaudio
Simple audio library for Windows, Linux, OSX. Supports Mp3, Ogg, Wav playback and multichannel mixing.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C++ OSX discussion
C++ OSX related posts
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Linux fork of FAR Manager that works on macOS as well
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OpenFrameworks: Open-source C++ Toolkit for Creative Experimentation
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Mailspring: Cross-platform, fast, open source mail client
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OpenFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding
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PEP 730 – Adding iOS as a supported platform
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Resolume
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Nitro: A fast, lightweight 3MB inference server with OpenAI-Compatible API
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Index
What are some of the best open-source OSX projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | OpenFrameworks | 10,277 |
| 2 | glslViewer | 5,139 |
| 3 | Boost.Beast | 4,716 |
| 4 | pcm | 3,158 |
| 5 | far2l | 2,070 |
| 6 | cr | 1,719 |
| 7 | ChrysaLisp | 1,677 |
| 8 | android-file-transfer-linux | 1,617 |
| 9 | DPP | 1,293 |
| 10 | hello_imgui | 837 |
| 11 | Seamly2D | 778 |
| 12 | NootRX | 700 |
| 13 | sparsebundlefs | 355 |
| 14 | metal-cpp | 340 |
| 15 | AirSane | 316 |
| 16 | DarkRadiant | 165 |
| 17 | msigd | 61 |
| 18 | cppm | 40 |
| 19 | tssh | 29 |
| 20 | proteaaudio | 29 |
| 21 | sockpuppet | 17 |
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