ctype VS Eclector

Compare ctype vs Eclector and see what are their differences.

ctype

CL type system implementation (by s-expressionists)

Eclector

A portable Common Lisp reader that is highly customizable, can recover from errors and can return concrete syntax trees (by s-expressionists)
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ctype Eclector
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6.2 7.8
22 days ago about 2 months ago
Common Lisp Common Lisp
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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ctype

Posts with mentions or reviews of ctype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-20.
  • Re-targeting (Lisp) compilers
    8 projects | /r/lisp | 20 Sep 2022
    There is significant overlap with SICL and its associated pieces which supply many of the other parts needed to make a Common Lisp. Some of these are Cluster which provides a portable and extensible assembler, Eclector which supplies a portable and extensible reader, Concrete-Syntax-Tree that supports source code tracking during compilation, ctype that implements the Common Lisp type system, and Clostrum that provides first-class environments for e.g. run-time, evaluation, and compilation. The SICL project has as one of its goals the creation of portable infrastructure for implementing Common Lisp, and these pieces are novel building blocks that were created as part of the project.
  • Common Lisp polymorphic stories.
    13 projects | /r/lisp | 4 Nov 2021
    Other times, the support is limited by the implementations supported by ctype and cl-form-types (and cl-environments). Although, if there is any good request, I could work on making a dynamic-only ANSI-CL compliant sub-system of PF.

Eclector

Posts with mentions or reviews of Eclector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
  • Csexp: S-Expressions over the Network
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2023
    I think this should be safe: https://github.com/phoe/safe-read

    This doesn’t provide such functionality out of the box, but it makes it pretty trivial to produce a custom READ that only has the features you want: https://github.com/s-expressionists/Eclector

  • Re-targeting (Lisp) compilers
    8 projects | /r/lisp | 20 Sep 2022
    There is significant overlap with SICL and its associated pieces which supply many of the other parts needed to make a Common Lisp. Some of these are Cluster which provides a portable and extensible assembler, Eclector which supplies a portable and extensible reader, Concrete-Syntax-Tree that supports source code tracking during compilation, ctype that implements the Common Lisp type system, and Clostrum that provides first-class environments for e.g. run-time, evaluation, and compilation. The SICL project has as one of its goals the creation of portable infrastructure for implementing Common Lisp, and these pieces are novel building blocks that were created as part of the project.
  • Are there public experiments with parallel and concurrent lisp 'engines'?
    6 projects | /r/lisp | 12 Feb 2022
    You mean the parts of the reader that is capable of reading from a stream object and returns strings, booleans, numbers? These are just functions that accept a stream and they return Lisp objects. See e.g. Eclector for an implementation of a Lisp reader as an external library.
  • Lowercased version of Common Lisp with case preserving readtable (:PRESERVE)
    1 project | /r/lisp | 30 Aug 2021
    I'm aware of eclector; hoping to take a look some day.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ctype and Eclector you can also consider the following projects:

fast-generic-functions - Seal your generic functions for an extra boost in performance.

SICL - A fresh implementation of Common Lisp

lisp-interface-library - LIL: abstract interfaces and supporting concrete data-structures in Common Lisp

lparallel - Parallelism for Common Lisp

sealable-metaobjects - A CLOSsy way to trade genericity for performance.

nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

polymorphic-functions - A function type to dispatch on types instead of classes with partial support for dispatching on optional and keyword argument types.

luckless - Lockless data structures for Common Lisp

Concrete-Syntax-Tree - Concrete Syntax Trees represent s-expressions with source information

wat-js - Concurrency and Metaprogramming for JS

generic-cl - Generic function interface to standard Common Lisp functions

cl-secure-read - Securing a reader in spirit of Let Over Lambda