fffaraz/awesome-cpp
A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.
73.8k stars · 8.4k forks
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 15 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 7
- Human commits, 90 days
- 17
- Human commits, 365 days
- 98
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 11, 2026 (4 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 15
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 10 hours
Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 98 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 16
- Contributors
- 426
Top committers
- toge: 37% of commits
- Copilot: 17% of commits
- fffaraz: 11% of commits
- auscaster: 2% of commits
- gistrec: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 9, 2014 to Sep 11, 2014: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 9, 2014 to Oct 16, 2014: about 470 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 24, 2014 to Oct 26, 2014: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 16, 2014 to Dec 18, 2014: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 21, 2015 to Mar 24, 2015: about 290 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 8, 2015 to Apr 9, 2015: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 14, 2018 to Jan 17, 2018: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 4, 2021 to Jan 6, 2021: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 26, 2021 to Oct 26, 2021: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 16, 2022 to Apr 18, 2022: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 27, 2022 to Sep 28, 2022: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Feb 4, 2023 to Feb 4, 2023: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 9, 2023 to Mar 10, 2023: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 10, 2023 to Apr 13, 2023: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a flat block of stars. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Nov 21, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023: about 779 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 9 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: fffaraz/awesome-cpp
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[](https://reporadar.ai/fffaraz/awesome-cpp)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy