8 alternatives to vcpkg

microsoft/vcpkg — C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS (27,528 stars, MIT, dev-tools, infra, files).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 45 licence-cleared components from microsoft/vcpkg itself.

The alternatives in detail

• composer/composer
  Dependency Manager for PHP
  score 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 29,559 stars · 319 components · search them
• tinyhumansai/homebrew-core
  🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
  score 5.2/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 1 stars · 3,027 components · search them
• nerdy-tech-com-gitub/choco
  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
  score 5.3/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1 stars · 373 components · search them
• rxhanson/rectangle
  Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 30,128 stars · 217 components · search them · alternatives
• kivy/kivy
  Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
  score 5.4/10 · MIT permissive · 19,030 stars · 270 components · search them
• interceptsuite/proxybridge
  Force Proxy to any Windows/MacOS/Linux Application TCP and UDP traffic
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 6,900 stars · 90 components · search them
• p0deje/maccy
  Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 22,010 stars · 104 components · search them
• teddy-van-jerry/fractal_designer
  This is an application to make fractal videos based on Qt, C++ and FFmpeg.
  score 5.1/10 · MIT permissive · 16 stars · 374 components · search them

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