eva vs bat

eva

a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1) (by nerdypepper)

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bat

A cat(1) clone with wings. (by sharkdp)

Command-line Tool syntax-highlighting Git Terminal CLI Rust HacktoberFest

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eva		bat
	Project
2	Mentions	195
787	Stars	46,497
-	Growth	-
3.3	Activity	9.5
4 months ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Rust	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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eva

Posts with mentions or reviews of eva. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-02.

Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2023

I have a TI-84 Plus. However, I mostly use eva [0] and python.
[0] https://github.com/nerdypepper/eva
Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal
27 projects | dev.to | 7 Nov 2022

eva: A CLI REPL calculator.

bat

Posts with mentions or reviews of bat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.

Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
29 projects | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024

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5 Developer CLI Essentials
3 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2024

4. bat
Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023

Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.
As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.
Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
MacOS tools to make your life easier
14 projects | /r/MacOS | 7 Dec 2023

Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Bat: A cat clone for syntax highlighting in the terminal
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Nov 2023
🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
9 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2023

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Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023
For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height):
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages
```
  # in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc
```
Bat: A Cat Clone with Wings
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing eva and bat you can also consider the following projects:

fend - Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator

vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor

txtai - 💡 All-in-one open-source embeddings database for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.

libqalculate - Qalculate! library and CLI

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

joule-heat-calculator - Joule Heating Calculation and Cooling via Heat Transfer in Wire.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

jsonformer - A Bulletproof Way to Generate Structured JSON from Language Models

glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻