Squid VS klister

Compare Squid vs klister and see what are their differences.

Squid

Squid – type-safe metaprogramming and compilation framework for Scala (by epfldata)

klister

an implementation of stuck macros (by gelisam)
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Squid klister
1 7
197 122
0.5% -
0.0 5.6
about 2 months ago 9 days ago
Scala Haskell
Apache License 2.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Squid

Posts with mentions or reviews of Squid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2020-12-29.
  • Haskell doesn't have macros
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Dec 2020
    In the video, the presenter says he doesn't know any other system with "type-aware hygienic macros". You may want to have a quick look at Scala 3, which also has such a system. See, for instance, this paper and also the precursor work by myself for Scala 2: https://github.com/epfldata/squid#publications

klister

Posts with mentions or reviews of klister. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Interactive animations
    11 projects | /r/haskell | 6 May 2023
    Yeah, that project is pretty much at the bottom of my list, unfortunately. My top projects these days are mgmt, klister, recursion-schemes, and hint... And that's already too much!
  • Rust Tests Itself (Kind of!)
    2 projects | /r/rust | 30 Dec 2022
    case is a special form, ie a bit of core syntax, but, interestingly, data is not. (It is presumably a macro; typechecking is actually done as a part of macro expansion.) The syntax remains pretty uniform. Or, in Klister, type ascription is done via normal S-expression syntax with a form called the, as (the $type $expression); again, the syntax is uniform.
  • How do you typecheck a macro?
    6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 30 Sep 2021
    You might be interested in Klister: https://github.com/gelisam/klister
  • Using defmacro's &environment argument to implement Racket's hygienic macro expansion system?
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 2 Feb 2021
    I've now also found an implementation for klister, which is meant to interleave type checking with macro expansion.
  • Haskell doesn't have macros
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 29 Dec 2020
    In Klister, which already has Scheme-like macros and Haskell-like types (polymorphism, algebraic types and higher-kinded types, but not yet fancier types like RankNTypes and GADTs), our plan to get the best of both worlds (lexical syntax and typed ASTs) is to separate parsing from macro evaluation. That is, users write their programs using the surface syntax of s-expressions, parsers parse those into typed ASTs, and macros are typed by the type of the ASTs they receive as input and produce as output. At this stage this is only a research idea, I don't know if that's going to work out yet, but I hope so!

What are some alternatives?

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better-files - Simple, safe and intuitive Scala I/O

Scalaz - Principled Functional Programming in Scala

Quicklens - Modify deeply nested case class fields