Awesome, Stand-Alone C++11 Projects

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Awesome, Stand-Alone C++11 Projects

Projects with wide adoption, broad compiler support, proper testing and great documentation.

Most of them are header-only (which is not necessarily a good thing for all tasks!), some of them even provide an amalgated (single-file) header.

CLI

(replace Boost.ProgramOptions)

• CLI11: https://github.com/CLIUtils/CLI11
• Argh!: https://github.com/adishavit/argh

Testing

(replace Boost.Test)

• Catch2: https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2

Debugging

single-header (C++98) backtrace on segfaults and the like:

• backward-cpp: https://github.com/bombela/backward-cpp

File Parsing

• NLohmann.JSON: https://github.com/nlohmann/json

Language Bindings

(replace Boost.Python)

• pybind11: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11

Logging

• spdlog: https://github.com/gabime/spdlog

C++ Stdlib Previews for C++11

Unit Systems

• https://github.com/nholthaus/units
• https://github.com/martinmoene/PhysUnits-CT-Cpp11

C++17 Optional

• https://github.com/martinmoene/optional-lite

C++17 Variant

• MPark.variant: https://github.com/mpark/variant

C++17 Filesystem

(replace Boost.Filesystem which also pulls Boost.System)

• https://github.com/cginternals/cppfs
• https://github.com/wjakob/filesystem
• http://www.martinbroadhurst.com/list-the-files-in-a-directory-in-c.html

C++17 Any

• https://github.com/thelink2012/any

C++20

• https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected
• GSL-lite (with CUDA support): https://github.com/martinmoene/gsl-lite