Distributions.jl VS clasp

Compare Distributions.jl vs clasp and see what are their differences.

Distributions.jl

A Julia package for probability distributions and associated functions. (by JuliaStats)

clasp

clasp Common Lisp environment (by clasp-developers)
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Distributions.jl clasp
6 47
1,062 2,487
0.8% 1.1%
7.6 9.8
25 days ago 6 days ago
Julia Common Lisp
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Distributions.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of Distributions.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.

clasp

Posts with mentions or reviews of clasp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-15.
  • I Accidentally a Scheme
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
    I accidentally a Common Lisp that interoperates with C++ (https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp.git). We would also like to move beyond BDWGC and Whiffle looks interesting. I will reach out to you and maybe we can chat about it.
  • Val, a high-level systems programming language
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2023
    Clasp might be such a language, it seems.

    https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

  • Proof of Concept clang plugin that automatically binds C/C++ -> Lua
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 3 Jun 2023
    Sounds to me like CLASP; it automatically exports C++ objects to be used from Common Lisp also via llvm.
  • What help is needed for Lisp community in order to make Lisp more popular?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Dec 2022
    So..

    "Why do you want to make Lisp more popular? If you were sucessful, what would be different in the world, and why is that desirable to you?"

    Normally at this point I'd listen to the response, and ask more questions based on that. That would wind up with a very, very deep thread, so I'll break a cardinal rule and pre-guess at some answers.

    This kind of question comes up pretty frequently. In many cases, I suspect the motivation behind the question is "Wow! Here's this cool tool I've discovered. I want to make something really useful with it. I want to do it as part of a community effort; share my excitement with others, share in their excitement, and know that what I'm making is useful because others find it desirable and are excited by it." The field could be cooking, sports, old machine tools, tiny homes, or demo scene. Its the fundemental driver for most content on HN, YouTube, Instructables, and such. It is a Good Thing.

    If that is your motivator, then my suggestion is to find something that bugs you and fix it. You've already decided you're only interested in code, not other aspects. You said you preferred vim, but the emacs ecosystem has a very rich set of sharp edges that need filing off, and a rich set of tools with which to attack them.

    One example: even after 50 years there's no open IDE which allows you to easily globally rename a Lisp identifier. I don't know about LispWorks or other proprietary environments, but you can't in emacs or vim do a right-click on "foo" in "(defun foo ()...)" and select a command which automatically renames it in all invocations. [Queue lots of "but you can..." replies here.] I don't think vim is up to the task of doing this internally. It would be possible in emacs; but would require a huge effort with lots of help from other people. If you emerged alive from that rabbit warren you'd join the company of Certified "How Hard Could it Be?" Mad Scientists such as Dr. "I just want to draw molecules" Meister [1] and "Wouldn't an OS in Lisp be Cool" Froggey [2].

    [1] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp

    [2] Mezzano https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano

  • Linux Kernel 6.1 Released with Initial Rust Code
    12 projects | /r/linux | 11 Dec 2022
    But also, there's a reason why most implementations readily make an effort to provide interoperability tools with a variety of runtimes. Clasp much like ABCL gives access to a whole library of other libraries trivially wrapped to interoperate with at little to no performance to cost (depending on how thin you make the wrappers, mainly).
    12 projects | /r/linux | 11 Dec 2022
    If you must interop with the existing C++ codebase, Clasp might be worth taking a look at.
  • Clasp benchmark vs SBCL and ECL?
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 27 Oct 2022
    I remember I read somewhere that Clasp binaries were about 100x slower than SBCL (around 2020?)
  • Research on performance-oriented, high-level languages?
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 6 Oct 2022
    Something like Clasp is the only thing I could think of that would get you even close to what you're asking about. https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp, designed to be used for molecular engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g
  • Clasp: A Common Lisp implementation using LLVM for compilation to native code
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022
  • Why Haskell Is Interesting?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Distributions.jl and clasp you can also consider the following projects:

Wren - The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.

MLJ.jl - A Julia machine learning framework

gdb-dashboard - Modular visual interface for GDB in Python

CL-CXX-JIT - Common Lisp and CXX interoperation with JIT

SICL - A fresh implementation of Common Lisp

graalvm-clojure - This project contains a set of "hello world" projects to verify which Clojure libraries do actually compile and produce native images under GraalVM.

HypothesisTests.jl - Hypothesis tests for Julia

immer - Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale

maru - Maru - a tiny self-hosting lisp dialect

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

voltron - A hacky debugger UI for hackers

julia - The Julia Programming Language