mercury VS core.logic

Compare mercury vs core.logic and see what are their differences.

mercury

The Mercury logic programming system. (by Mercury-Language)

core.logic

A logic programming library for Clojure & ClojureScript (by clojure)
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mercury core.logic
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864 1,431
1.4% 0.3%
9.8 5.2
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Mercury Clojure
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Eclipse Public License 1.0
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mercury

Posts with mentions or reviews of mercury. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-05.
  • Why Learn Prolog in 2021?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2021
    I'm not convinced there's great utility in smart contracts, but if there is, I think there's a huge utility in contracts being declarative and statically typed, to avoid many of the problems we've seen with existing contracts. In that case, a statically typed Prolog dialect would be a good starting point. The contract would be a set of declarative rules describing acceptable next states of the contract. To make the contracts verifiable in linear time, the submitter would submit the next state of the contract, plus a compact binary representation of the path taken through the rules set, so no backtracking would occur in the verifier. You could allow recursion, as verification time would still be linear in the size of the submitted compact path representation, just not linear in the size of the contract. If you disallow recursion, then verification would also be linear in the size of the contract.

    Granted, many of the problems with Ethereum Solidity contracts are more to do with all of its use of implicit behavior (in a misguided attempt to hide the complexity of contracts) rather than directly consequences of Solidity being imperative.

    Here's a quick plug for Mercury[0], a statically typed dialect of Prolog with an optimizing native code compiler. Supposedly it's 5 to 10 times faster than commercial Prolog compilers or available interpreters.

    [0] https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury

core.logic

Posts with mentions or reviews of core.logic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mercury and core.logic you can also consider the following projects:

awesome-prolog - Curated list of Prolog packages and resources

clojure-graph-resources - A curated list of Clojure resources for dealing with graph-like data.

Searching-In-An-Infinite-Space-Prolog - PP2014 Prolog Homework

paip-lisp - Lisp code for the textbook "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming"

pyswip - PySwip is a Python - SWI-Prolog bridge enabling to query SWI-Prolog in your Python programs. It features an (incomplete) SWI-Prolog foreign language interface, a utility class that makes it easy querying with Prolog and also a Pythonic interface.

hatlog - custom type systems for python in prolog: http://alehander42.me/prolog_type_systems

clpz - Constraint Logic Programming over Integers

racket - The Racket repository