encode-string VS semantic-source

Compare encode-string vs semantic-source and see what are their differences.

encode-string

String encoding and decoding in Haskell (by minad)

semantic-source

Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages (by github)
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encode-string semantic-source
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2 8,858
- 0.3%
3.3 9.1
3 months ago 29 days ago
Haskell Haskell
MIT License MIT License
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encode-string

Posts with mentions or reviews of encode-string. 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.

semantic-source

Posts with mentions or reviews of semantic-source. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-13.
  • The Meaning of Monad in MonadTrans
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2023
    One production example I know: GitHub code navigation is written in Haskell https://github.com/github/semantic
  • Semantic: Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
  • How to Get Started with Tree-Sitter
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2023
    ah, easy. it's because support has not been added into https://github.com/github/semantic which is the tech that powers the GitHub UI. Adding support is pretty easy/mainly glue code [1] that imports the tree sitter API.

    [1] https://github.com/github/semantic/blob/793a876ae45d38a6bd17...

  • Scala community now has control over the official Scala grammar for tree-sitter 🎉
    3 projects | /r/scala | 3 Jan 2023
  • 2022 State of Haskell Survey
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Nov 2022
  • 11 Companies That Use Haskell in Production
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 May 2022
    GitHub used Haskell for implementing Semantic, a command-line tool for parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code.
  • What happened with GitHub's semantic project?
    3 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Jan 2022
    As far as engineering effort, you can read this GitHub comment for an overview of where we’d like to take the project in the future. The tl;dr here is that the open sum type view of the world made it very concise to fold over syntax trees (since such a view of data is ultimately unityped, recursion schemes Just Work), but the tradeoff thus associated—namely, that you have to parse a concrete syntax tree into an open-sum view (a complicated and painful-to-read process), that you can never really be sure how a given syntax tree is shaped, and that the types don’t help you nearly as much as they could—proved to be too onerous to deal with. Going forward, we’re generating syntax types from the AST once per target language, and working on an abstraction (probably via this generated code; I made five separate efforts at using Generics for this, and failed every time) that recovers at least some of the convenience of recursion schemes. It turns out that recursion schemes over a mutually recursive syntax tree—as pretty much every language’s syntax trees are, in practice—are pretty much an unsolved problem, especially when extended to languages like TypeScript, which have hundreds of different syntax nodes.
  • Stack Graphs
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2021
    Meanwhile their Tree-Sitter-based semantic parser[1] looks abandoned. There is even rotting for years pull request[2] adding support of the same stack graphs into it.

    [1] https://github.com/github/semantic

    [2] https://github.com/github/semantic/pull/535

  • Cardano relying on Haskell is not bad at all
    1 project | /r/cardano | 30 Nov 2021
    The semantic team at GitHub uses it for statically analyzing the dozens of languages that end up in GitHub repositories: https://github.com/github/semantic/blob/eaf13783838861fe5eb6cd46d59354774a8eb88d/docs/why-haskell.md
  • 7 Useful Tools Written in Haskell
    1 project | /r/functionalprogramming | 3 Nov 2021
    Yesterday I was looking for some examples of projects using tree-sitter (which is C) when I found GitHub's semantic, used to analyze and compare source code, and written in Haskell: https://github.com/github/semantic/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing encode-string and semantic-source you can also consider the following projects:

bson - Haskell representation and serialization of BSON documents (version 1.0) as defined at bsonspec.org

diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

caledon - higher order dependently typed logic programing

massiv - Efficient Haskell Arrays featuring Parallel computation

cereal

refined - Refinement types with static checking

cantor-pairing - Convert data to and from a natural number representation

text-icu - This package provides the Haskell Data.Text.ICU library, for performing complex manipulation of Unicode text.

Glean - System for collecting, deriving and working with facts about source code.

text - Haskell library for space- and time-efficient operations over Unicode text.

jump - Jump start your Haskell development