Ark VS nsis

Compare Ark vs nsis and see what are their differences.

Ark

ArkScript is a small, fast, functional and scripting language for C++ projects (by ArkScript-lang)

nsis

***This is just a mirror of https://sf.net/projects/nsis -- please report issues there*** NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution. (by kichik)
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Ark nsis
17 3
548 596
3.5% -
8.4 6.1
4 days ago 2 days ago
C++ C++
Mozilla Public License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Ark

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.
  • Dealing with documentation
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Apr 2023
    This results in two websites: - the documentation of the language on the "main" website, https://arkscript-lang.dev ; - the technical documentation (+ modules) on doxygen: https://arkscript-lang.dev/impl/
  • November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
    25 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 3 Nov 2022
    1: https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark 2: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
  • Making your project available through Homebrew
    1 project | dev.to | 7 Sep 2022
    # Documentation: https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook # https://rubydoc.brew.sh/Formula # PLEASE REMOVE ALL GENERATED COMMENTS BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PULL REQUEST! class ArkscriptAT330 < Formula desc "" homepage "" license "" head "https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark.git" depends_on "cmake" => :build def install # ENV.deparallelize # if your formula fails when building in parallel system "cmake", "-S", ".", "-B", "build", *std_cmake_args system "cmake", "--build", "build" system "cmake", "--install", "build" end test do # `test do` will create, run in and delete a temporary directory. # # This test will fail and we won't accept that! For Homebrew/homebrew-core # this will need to be a test that verifies the functionality of the # software. Run the test with `brew test [email protected]`. Options passed # to `brew install` such as `--HEAD` also need to be provided to `brew test`. # # The installed folder is not in the path, so use the entire path to any # executables being tested: `system "#{bin}/program", "do", "something"`. system "false" end end
  • Understanding tail-call optimization
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2022
    Lately, I've been working on optimizations for my language, ArkScript, and finally take some time to add tail-call optimization to my compiler.
  • Solving the stack problem
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 5 Feb 2022
    A nice and bigger example would be this one, a snake game: https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark/blob/dev/examples/games/snake/snake.ark
  • Contributed to some OSSs with pull-requests in this year too.
    3 projects | dev.to | 7 Oct 2021
  • July 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
    7 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 1 Jul 2021
    Still working on ArkScript after releasing the 3.1.0, improving the standard library, adding modules, and working on performance improvements + adding parallel builtins soon!
  • ArkScript 3.1.0 is here with macro and UTF-8 support
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jun 2021
  • ArkScript 3.1.0 is here with macros and UTF-8
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 30 Jun 2021
  • GitHub actions are awesome
    1 project | dev.to | 8 Jun 2021
    Until recently, when we wanted to create new releases for ArkScript, we had to build the language on all the system we support (currently Windows and Linux), build the modules (http, console, random, etc), test everything on each operating system, and then package the needed files and directory in ZIPs. We had to go to GitHub, create a new release, add the correct tag (and not mix it with the title as they are different things!), grep the latest changelog, and add our artifacts.

nsis

Posts with mentions or reviews of nsis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
  • Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read?
    46 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2022
    Eye-opening but probably not "best": the Nullsoft Installer, circa 2002 (https://github.com/kichik/nsis). Its goal, besides being an installer, was to produce a small binary. So the source was remarkably pithy, which taught me a lot about being direct and to-the-point rather than aiming for beautiful abstractions or reusability.

    Similar with Notch's Left4KDead, which implemented a fun zombie game for a Java small-code competition. A mirror of the original source is here (https://github.com/codingcampbell/Left-4k-Dead). I rewrote it in JavaScript as a Chrome App, in the process refactoring for readability (and sacrificing some of the code's beauty). https://github.com/sowbug/ChromeLeft4kDead

  • How do you publish your internal LOB apps?
    2 projects | /r/dotnet | 25 Apr 2022
  • Running Scripts in Github
    1 project | /r/aws | 9 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ark and nsis you can also consider the following projects:

Peregrine - A blazing fast language for the blazing fast world(WIP)

AutoHotkey_L - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows. [Moved to: https://github.com/AutoHotkey/AutoHotkey]

hera - Hera: Ewasm virtual machine conforming to the EVMC API

gmic - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

fake-gcs-server - Google Cloud Storage emulator & testing library.

Feral - Feral programming language reference implementation

boring-lang - A very boring programming language

Ofelia - A real-time cross-platform creative coding tool for multimedia development

RenewCert - Renew click once certificates

zhetapi - A C++ ML and numerical analysis API, with an accompanying scripting language.

Squirrel - An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps