aplette VS ride

Compare aplette vs ride and see what are their differences.

aplette

This is a new take on an old language: APL. The goal is to pare APL down to its elegant essence. This version of APL is oriented toward scripting within a Unix-style computing environment. (by gregfjohnson)
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aplette ride
3 5
87 195
- 3.1%
3.4 9.2
about 1 year ago 5 days ago
C JavaScript
- MIT License
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aplette

Posts with mentions or reviews of aplette. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-04.
  • Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2023
  • Try APL
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jun 2021
    There is Aplette which supposedly integrates nicely with other Unix tools. It's a port/update of the earlier openAPL source code, which I think was done by Ken Thompson? Here:

    https://github.com/gregfjohnson/aplette

  • The APL Orchard
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2021
    If you're interested in recent developments in array languages, I recommend checking out:

    BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

    ngn/k https://git.sr.ht/~ngn/k/tree/master/item/readme.txt (Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009241)

    aplette, which is a modernization of Ken Thompson's APL https://github.com/gregfjohnson/aplette (Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740536)

    I'd also recommend checking out J, which isn't a recent development, but has the best syntax out of all array languages, has the best development environments, is the easiest to learn (it has a way to learn it built into the language itself!), and is the only one that treats making GUIs as a first-class feature: jsoftware.com (Has so many previous discussions I just recommend using HN search to find them.)

    The chat is biased to Dyalog APL, but a lot of the modern additions Dyalog has made to the language make it (in my opinion) worse as a notation, so ideally don't let it turn you off of the concept of array languages entirely if Dyalog doesn't "click" with you.

    If you haven't already, you should also check out Notation as a Tool of Thought, a paper so good it won Iverson the Turing Award:

    https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.p...

ride

Posts with mentions or reviews of ride. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing aplette and ride you can also consider the following projects:

ngn-apl - An APL interpreter written in JavaScript. Runs in a browser or NodeJS.

APL - another APL derivative

json - A tiny JSON parser and emitter for Perl 6 on Rakudo

array - Simple array language written in kotlin

APL.jl

nottinygc - Higher-performance allocator for TinyGo WASI apps

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

sgcl - Smart Garbage Collection Library for C++