basic-prelude vs apecs

basic-prelude

An enhanced core prelude, meant for building up more complete preludes on top of. (by snoyberg)

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apecs

a fast, extensible, type driven Haskell ECS framework for games (by jonascarpay)

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basic-prelude		apecs
	Project
-	Mentions	4
49	Stars	381
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.3
over 6 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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basic-prelude

Posts with mentions or reviews of basic-prelude. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

apecs

Posts with mentions or reviews of apecs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-18.

I want to make a game in Haskell to surprise my boyfriend, but don’t know where to start.
1 project | /r/haskell | 22 Jan 2023

There's an apecs-gloss tutorial here that is a simple Shmup.
New Haskell ebook: Learn Haskell by building a blog generator
1 project | /r/haskell | 5 Dec 2021

The apecs paper and associated shoot 'em up game tutorial
Looking for projects that make heavy use of IntMap which have benchmarks
4 projects | /r/haskell | 18 Sep 2021

apecs uses IntMaps all over the place and is benchmarked. They're the most common backing data structure for Components I'd say.
Unity Patents ECS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021

Example of ECS that was published on GitHub before this patent was even filed: https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs.git

What are some alternatives?

When comparing basic-prelude and apecs you can also consider the following projects:

transient-universe - A Cloud monad based on transient for the creation of Web and reactive distributed applications that are fully composable, where Web browsers are first class nodes in the cloud

frpnow

rio-orphans - A standard library for Haskell

ImperativeHaskell - Proof that Haskell can look and act like an imperative language.

cloud-haskell - This is an umbrella development repository for Cloud Haskell

record - Anonymous records

auto - Haskell DSL and platform providing denotational, compositional api for discrete-step, locally stateful, interactive programs, games & automations. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/auto

extensible-effects - Extensible Effects: An Alternative to Monad Transformers

ComonadSheet - A library for expressing "spreadsheet-like" computations with absolute and relative references, using fixed-points of n-dimensional comonads.

hask - Category theory for Haskell with a lens flavor (you need GHC 7.8.3, not 7.8.2 to build this!)

funflow - Functional workflows