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PowerShell
Command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET
Powershell is a cross-platform, task-based command-line shell and scripting language that helps rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows) and processes. It works well with existing tools and is optimized for dealing with structured data, REST APIs and object models. PowerShell was developed by Microsoft as a task management and configuration management framework. Powershell is designed to let you manage computers from the command line and improve the command-line and scripting environment. -
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BepInEx
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework
Unity / XNA game patcher and plugin framework. BepInEx is a plugin / modding framework for Unity Mono, IL2CPP, and .NET framework games (XNA, FNA, MonoGame, etc.) Stable builds are released once a new iteration of BepInEx is considered feature-complete. They have the least bugs, but some newest features might not be available. Bleeding edge builds are available on BepisBuilds. Bleeding edge builds are always the latest builds of the source code. Thus they are the opposite to stable builds: they have the newest features and bugfixes available, but usually tend to be the most buggy. Therefore you should use bleeding edge builds only if you are asked to or if you want to preview the upcoming version of BepInEx. Some games require some additional changes in order to work around specific limitations of different Unity versions. -
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OpenSSH
Win32 port of OpenSSH
OpenSSH is a complete implementation of the SSH protocol (version 2) for secure remote login, command execution and file transfer. It includes a client ssh and server sshd, file transfer utilities scp and sftp as well as tools for key generation (ssh-keygen), run-time key storage (ssh-agent) and a number of supporting programs. This is a port of OpenBSD's OpenSSH to most Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, OS X and Cygwin. Portable OpenSSH polyfills OpenBSD APIs that are not available elsewhere, adds sshd sandboxing for more operating systems and includes support for OS-native authentication and auditing (e.g. using PAM). There are many build-time customization options available. -
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REFramework
Scripting platform, modding framework and VR support for RE Engine
A mod framework, scripting platform, and modding tool for RE Engine games. Inspired by and uses code from Kanan. Supports Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 7, Resident Evil Village, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter Rise. Lua Scripting API (All games), VR, Generic 6DOF VR support for all games, motion controls for RE2/RE3 (RE7 and RE8 motion controls are still WIP!), first person (RE2, RE3), free camera (All games), scene timescale (All games), manual flashlight (RE2, RE3, RE8), FOV slider & vignette disabler (RE2, RE3, RE8). -
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Laravel
The PHP Framework For Web Artisans
Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework -
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Electron
Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Electron is an open-source framework that uses Node.js runtime and the Chromium web browser thereby allowing you to build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux and comes with convenient features such as automatic updates, app crash reporting, debugging and profiling and more. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your app. Initially developed for the Atom editor, Electron is now the framework of choice for dozens of popular desktop apps including Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. -
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ESP-IDF
Espressif IoT Development Framework
ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework) is the official, open-source development framework for programming Espressif SoCs (such as ESP32, ESP32‑S2, ESP32‑C3 series). It provides toolchains, APIs, components, sample code, and workflows for building embedded IoT firmware, offering support for Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth, power management, and peripheral integration. As well as the esp-idf-template project mentioned in Getting Started, ESP-IDF comes with some example projects in the examples directory. Install host build dependencies mentioned in the Getting Started guide. Run the export script on Windows (export.bat) or source it on Unix (source export.sh) in every shell environment before using ESP-IDF. -
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Cocos2d-x
Open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools
Cocos2d-x is a mature, free, open-source, cross-platform C++ game development framework—derived from cocos2d-iPhone—for building 2D games, interactive media, and demos across major platforms. Fast and compressed textures: PVR compressed and uncompressed textures, ETC1 compressed textures, and more. Language: C++, with Lua and JavaScript bindings. Android Studio 3.0.0+ to build Android games(tested with 3.0.0). JRE or JDK 1.6+ is required for web publishing. Fast font rendering using Fixed and variable-width fonts. -
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Hugo
The world’s fastest framework for building websites
Hugo is a popular, fast and flexible open source static site generator written in Go. It’s designed for speed and flexibility, while also being very easy to use. Hugo has the amazing ability to render a typical, moderately-sized website in just a fraction of a second. It takes Hugo around 1 millisecond to render each piece of content, making it the fastest tool of its kind. Hugo supports unlimited content types, and ships with pre-made templates to make SEO, analytics and many other functions quick and easy to achieve. It’s got a robust theming system, capable of producing even the most complex websites. Hugo works well with just about any kind of website, be it a blog, tumble or doc. It works on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. -
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EhViewer
EhViewer overhauled with Material Design 3, Jetpack Compose and more
EhViewer fork is dedicated to lightweight and high-performance. -
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Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans
Apache NetBeans is much more than a text editor. It highlights source code syntactically and semantically, lets you easily refactor code, with a range of handy and powerful tools. Apache NetBeans provides editors, wizards, and templates to help you create applications in Java, PHP and many other languages. Apache NetBeans can be installed on all operating systems that support Java, i.e, Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and BSD. Write Once, Run Anywhere, applies to NetBeans too. -
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Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime Plus
The complete and extended version of Visual Basic 6.0 runtime library
This is the complete package of runtime files and redistributable libraries for running or distributing applications written in Visual Basic 6.0 and together with some third-party redistributable components. Notes and Disclaimer: * Visual Basic 6.0 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. * All trademarks and components are owned by their respective owners. * The developer's scope was the collection of VB6 redistributables and creation of installer only. * Use at your own risk, the developers was not responsible for any damages for using this software. -
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Flask
The Python micro framework for building web applications
Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework designed to help developers get started with their web applications quickly and easily with the ability to scale up to complex applications. Being a “micro” framework does not mean that your whole web application must fit into a single Python file (although it can) or that it be limited; rather it means that Flask aims to keep the core simple but extensible. Flask offers suggestions, but it won’t make any decisions for you such as what database to use or what dependencies or project layout to choose. You get to choose the tools and libraries you want to use, so Flask can be everything you need and nothing you don’t. Flask has become one of the most popular Python web application frameworks, and has amassed a great number of extensions provided by the community that make adding new functionality easy. -
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Pentaho Data Integration
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Pentaho Data Integration uses the Maven framework. Project distribution archive is produced under the assemblies module. Core implementation, database dialog, user interface, PDI engine, PDI engine extensions, PDI core plugins, and integration tests. Maven, version 3+, and Java JDK 1.8 are requisites. Use of the Pentaho checkstyle format (via mvn checkstyle:check and reviewing the report) and developing working Unit Tests helps to ensure that pull requests for bugs and improvements are processed quickly. In addition to the unit tests, there are integration tests that test cross-module operation. -
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wxWidgets
A cross-platform GUI library
wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI. It's also extensive, free, open-source and mature. -
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Volatility
An advanced memory forensics framework
Volatility is a widely used open-source framework for analyzing memory captures (RAM dumps) from Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. It enables investigators and malware analysts to extract process lists, network connections, DLLs, strings, artifacts, and more. Volatility supports many plugins for detecting hidden processes, malware, rootkits, and event tracing. It’s essential in digital forensics and incident response workflows. -
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Apache Beam
Unified programming model for Batch and Streaming
Apache Beam is an open source, unified programming model to define both batch and streaming data-parallel processing pipelines, as well as certain language-specific SDKs for constructing pipelines and Runners. These pipelines are executed on one of Beam’s supported distributed processing back-ends, which include Apache Apex, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow. Beam is especially useful for Embarrassingly Parallel data processing tasks, and caters to the different needs and backgrounds of end users, SDK writers and runner writers. -
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CodeIgniter
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
CodeIgniter is a lightweight PHP web framework that focuses on simplicity, performance, and minimal configuration to get started quickly. It adopts an MVC-style or loosely structured approach depending on developer preference, with core components for routing, input handling, output views, and database abstraction. The framework provides convenience libraries for sessions, form validation, encryption, email, file uploads, and more, all optional so the footprint stays small. Because it doesn’t force heavy conventions, CodeIgniter is flexible for both small projects and larger modular applications where you may want to craft your own architecture. Its documentation and clarity of code make the learning curve gentle for PHP newcomers. In production, CodeIgniter’s efficiency and minimal overhead make it a steady option when performance and stability are priorities. -
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for creating high-quality desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, RTAS and AAX audio plug-ins. JUCE can be easily integrated with existing projects via CMake, or can be used as a project generation tool via the Projucer, which supports exporting projects for Xcode (macOS and iOS), Visual Studio, Android Studio, Code::Blocks and Linux Makefiles as well as containing a source code editor. JUCE projects can be managed with either the Projucer (JUCE's own project-configuration tool) or with CMake. With support for PC, Mac and Linux, JUCE is the perfect tool for building powerful and complex applications. JUCE also supports the development of plug-ins: VST, AU and AAX. Run your desktop applications on mobile! One-click deployment to Android and iOS (requires Android Studio and XCode) Adjust the user interface of your application with the Projucer live coding engine. -
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MAME
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework
MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. The MAME project as a whole is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, 2 (GPL-2.0), since it contains code made available under multiple GPL-compatible licenses. -
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idevicerestore
Restore/upgrade firmware of iOS devices
A command-line application to restore firmware files to iOS devices. The iDevice restore application is a full reimplementation of all granular steps which are performed during the restore of firmware to a device. In general, upgrades and downgrades are possible, however subject to the availability of SHSH blobs from Apple for signing the firmware files. idevicerestore requires a properly installed usbmuxd for the restore procedure. Please make sure that it is either running or configured to be started automatically as soon as a device is detected in normal and/or restore mode. If properly installed this will be handled by udev/systemd. -
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Next.js
The React Framework
Next.js is the React framework for lightweight apps, static websites, pre-rendered apps and more. It solves the most common problems associated with building a complete web application with React, such as those involving code bundling and transforming, production automizations, page rendering and having to write server-side code. Next.js offers a best in class “Developer Experience” through such capabilities as pre-rendering, single command static exporting, automatic code-splitting, hot code reloading and many other great features. It is fully extensible and ready for production. It’s no wonder Next.js is used in tens of thousands of production-facing websites and web applications from some of the world’s biggest brands. -
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Sliver
Adversary Emulation Framework
Sliver is an open source cross-platform adversary emulation/red team framework, it can be used by organizations of all sizes to perform security testing. Sliver's implants support C2 over Mutual TLS (mTLS), WireGuard, HTTP(S), and DNS and are dynamically compiled with per-binary asymmetric encryption keys. The server and client support MacOS, Windows, and Linux. Implants are supported on MacOS, Windows, and Linux (and possibly every Golang compiler target but we've not tested them all). -
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Selenium
Browser automation framework and ecosystem
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should) also be automated as well. If you want to create robust, browser-based regression automation suites and tests, scale and distribute scripts across many environments, then you want to use Selenium WebDriver, a collection of language specific bindings to drive a browser - the way it is meant to be driven. If you want to create quick bug reproduction scripts, create scripts to aid in automation-aided exploratory testing, then you want to use Selenium IDE; a Chrome and Firefox add-on that will do simple record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. If you want to scale by distributing and running tests on several machines and manage multiple environments from a central point. -
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JUnit 5
Programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM
The 5th major version of the programmer-friendly testing framework for Java and the JVM. JUnit 5 is the next generation of JUnit. The goal is to create an up-to-date foundation for developer-side testing on the JVM. This includes focusing on Java 8 and above, as well as enabling many different styles of testing. Official CI build server for JUnit 5. Used to perform quick checks on submitted pull requests and for build matrices including the latest released OpenJDK and early access builds of the next OpenJDK. The JUnit Platform serves as a foundation for launching testing frameworks on the JVM. It also defines the TestEngine API for developing a testing framework that runs on the platform. Furthermore, the platform provides a Console Launcher to launch the platform from the command line and the JUnit Platform Suite Engine for running a custom test suite using one or more test engines on the platform. First-class support for the JUnit Platform also exists in popular IDEs.