firrtl VS dotty

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firrtl

Flexible Intermediate Representation for RTL (by chipsalliance)
firrtl intermediate representation Hardware Transformation Compiler
Source Code
chisel-lang.org
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dotty

The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty. (by scala)
Tools Scala Scala3 Epfl Compiler Dotty
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dotty.epfl.ch
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firrtl dotty
4 71
694 5,669
2.9% 2.1%
0.0 10.0
10 days ago 2 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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firrtl

Posts with mentions or reviews of firrtl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-15.

dotty

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotty. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
  • RustRover ā€“ A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
    Dotty? Was it still the name later?

    http://dotty.epfl.ch/

  • Does the fthomas/refined library work differently in Scala 3?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 20 Jun 2023
    I think this might be related to this issue.
  • `boundary/break`: do you use it ? what do you do with it ?
    3 projects | /r/scala | 12 Jun 2023
    You can look (and EPFL collect feedback) about EPFL implementation of async/await: https://github.com/lampepfl/async. Also you can look at dotty ticket about this: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16739
  • Iron updates: turning opaque types into value objects
    2 projects | /r/scala | 6 Jun 2023
    The reason Iā€™m not currently an opaque type user as they do not play well with the tagless final style we use, though I am patiently awaiting some attention on my bug report: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/17281
  • Reconnecting with Scala. What's new?
    7 projects | /r/scala | 24 May 2023
    Links: - https://dotty.epfl.ch/ - https://scala-native.org/en/stable/ - https://www.scala-js.org/ - https://typelevel.org/ - https://zio.dev/ - https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native/pull/3120 - https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16517 - https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/index.html - https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/ - https://scalameta.org/metals/ - https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/migration/compatibility-intro.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2023/04/18/faster-scalajs-development-with-frontend-tooling.html - https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2022/08/17/long-term-compatibility-plans.html
  • About Scala-Native
    4 projects | /r/scala | 13 Apr 2023
    Scala Native has much more control on how the Scala AST is compiled, and can easier workaround platform limitations, eg. lazy vals in Scala 3 required reflection config for Native Image (see this and that), while in Scala Native we could mitigate problems with unsupported usage inside in other ways within the compiler plugin.
  • I've started writing a book on Scala 3 Macros
    1 project | /r/scala | 17 Mar 2023
    By the way, you might be interested in this recent PR which overhauls the scala 3 macro docs: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/17060.
  • What is scala's modern Web API framework?
    5 projects | /r/scala | 7 Mar 2023
    For example, this issue (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/issues/12840) was blocking the migration, it was reported more than a year ago and the fix was finally released a month ago (https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/releases/tag/3.3.0-RC2).
  • scala 3 does not have :javap. Does anyone have any tips how to get around this.
    2 projects | /r/scala | 22 Feb 2023
    For the record, there is an implementation of :javap which is close to being done but might need a volunteer to get it over the finish line: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/12210
  • Is the Scala Center really working on Scala 4?
    1 project | /r/scala | 30 Jan 2023
    im glad to tell you that in 3.3.0 a lot of these -Wunused lints will be supported: see https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/16157

What are some alternatives?

When comparing firrtl and dotty you can also consider the following projects:

python-fpga-interchange - Python interface to FPGA interchange format

sbt - sbt, the interactive build tool

patchelf - A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables

Scalatex - Programmable, Typesafe Document Generation

pymtl3 - Pymtl 3 (Mamba), an open-source Python-based hardware generation, simulation, and verification framework

scalajs-benchmark - Benchmarks: write in Scala or JS, run in your browser. Live demo:

chisel - Chisel: A Modern Hardware Design Language

Mill - Your shiny new Java/Scala build tool!

netlistsvg - draws an SVG schematic from a JSON netlist

scalafmt - This repo is now a fork of --->

firrtl - Flexible Intermediate Representation for RTL

Metals - Scala language server with rich IDE features šŸš€

firrtl vs python-fpga-interchange dotty vs sbt firrtl vs patchelf dotty vs Scalatex firrtl vs pymtl3 dotty vs scalajs-benchmark firrtl vs chisel dotty vs Mill firrtl vs netlistsvg dotty vs scalafmt firrtl vs firrtl dotty vs Metals