Cassius VS exfile

Compare Cassius vs exfile and see what are their differences.

Cassius

A CSS specification and reasoning engine (by uwplse)

exfile

File upload persistence and processing for Phoenix / Plug (by keichan34)
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Cassius exfile
5 0
90 90
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0.0 0.0
about 1 year ago over 2 years ago
Racket Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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Cassius

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cassius. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-12.
  • The Rules of Margin Collapse
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    FWIW, while there are unfortunately only very few attempts at formalizing CSS, there's at least an unofficial, unreviewed (?), partial formal semantics for (CSS 2-era) float layout based on z3 SMT and Racket you can take a look at to get a flavor, though it isn't receiving further development.

    [1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

    [2]: https://pavpanchekha.com/blog/css-floats.html

  • W3Cā€™s transfer from MIT to non-profit going poorly
    6 projects | /r/programming | 19 Dec 2022
    Do we need W3C anymore? The HTML 5 specification has been created by WHATWG for many years now, with W3C only rubber-stamping historic WHATWG versions until 2017 or so. SVG2 is going nowhere, and so isn't MathML, leaving the CSS working group as W3C's remaining point of influence over the Web. CSS is regarded as so poor and overdone a specification that the only two external projects for a formal specification have failed or remained woefully incomplete (1, 2).
  • Is There Too Much CSS Now?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2022
    1. CSS should've been split into app-y styles and doc-y styles a looong time ago; meaning that when you need JavaScript to make use of a feature anyway, there's no point in using CSS and it's better to set styles, layout using JavaScript rather than bloat CSS. The Houdini API was on the right track years ago.

    2. The CSS WG at W3C must deliver formal specification rather than the prose they're writing up now. For an idea how a (partial) formal spec for CSS rendering looks like, see eg. [1], [2] (with limitations).

    The one way complexity that both W3C and WHATWG have delivered over the past 15 years with complete lack of mental discipline due to financial dependency/job security will be a major source of confusion for generations to cone, and will not be looked at favorably.

    [1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

    [2]: https://github.com/lmeyerov/sc

  • Verifying GCC optimizations using an SMT solver
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2022
    There's this cool project using z3 (and racket) for formalizing CSS rendering [1] I never came around to lift for anything. Maybe someone else interested in leading the web out of the dark ages and give W3C's CSS WG an idea what we expect from them will.

    [1]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

  • Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2022
    FWIW, I know two (partial, kinda) formal specifications of CSS normal flow and float layout, both of which are finished ie dead projects:

    [1]: https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/pbrowser/pubfiles/paper....

    [2]: https://github.com/uwplse/cassius

    (not counting the 1990s constraint CSS effort).

    The first was merely part of a parallel compiler project and also covers table layout, whereas the second is a Racket (Scheme) program to formulate the HTML doc and CSS rules as a theory for submitting to z3 SMT to solve all kinds of decision problems (it can also produce a rendering).

    Not sure that's very helpful; it would be cool if W3C can invest some time into better specs (not just prose).

exfile

Posts with mentions or reviews of exfile. 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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Cassius and exfile you can also consider the following projects:

arc - :paperclip: Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir

elixgrep - An elixir framework to implement concurrent versions of common unix utilities, grep, find, etc..

ex_minimatch

fs - šŸ“ FS: Windows, Linux, Mac Driver

dir_walker - Simple Elixir file-system directory tree walker. It can handle large filesystems, as the tree is traversed lazily.

exfswatch - Filesystem monitor for elixir

waffle - Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir

zarex - Filename sanitization for Elixir

librex - Elixir library to convert office documents to other formats using LibreOffice.

sizeable - An Elixir library to make File Sizes human-readable

eye_drops - Configurable Elixir mix task to watch file changes and run the corresponding command.

sentix - A cross-platform file watcher for Elixir based on fswatch.