genact vs lucet

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genact		lucet
	Project
11	Mentions	5
8,662	Stars	4,061
-	Growth	-
8.3	Activity	6.6
about 5 hours ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Rust	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

genact

Posts with mentions or reviews of genact. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-18.

What's the funniest "crazy hacker terminal emulator" I can use to make a funny skit?
5 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 18 Jun 2022

Another one to look at is genact.
[One And Another Him] "Recovering files" by typing nonsense into the bash shell
3 projects | /r/itsaunixsystem | 8 Jun 2022
Htop is great when you need to make your PC look busier than you are
9 projects | /r/linux | 29 Mar 2022
Feeling like a linux poser
3 projects | /r/linux | 26 Mar 2022

genact
[i3] horizon (deeper)
5 projects | /r/unixporn | 15 Feb 2021

random gibberish terminal: genact

lucet

Posts with mentions or reviews of lucet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.

Unlocking the Power of WebAssembly
3 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2024

WebAssembly is extremely portable. WebAssembly runs on: all major web browsers, V8 runtimes like Node.js, and independent Wasm runtimes like Wasmtime, Lucet, and Wasmer.
A Look at Performance in Wasmtime and Cranelift
9 projects | /r/rust | 6 Sep 2022

The bytecode alliance had the lucet project which would be an OS executing WASM application, enabling very strict sandboxing.
Your python 4 dream list.
7 projects | /r/Python | 21 Feb 2022

References for anyone following: wasmtime Lucet
There are a *lot* of actor framework projects on Cargo.
17 projects | /r/rust | 1 May 2021

I guess lucet could be an under-layer for this but it's not really the same, different levels of the stack. Fascinating.
Writing Rust the Elixir way
5 projects | dev.to | 26 Nov 2020

I also want to use this opportunity to say a big thank you to the teams working on Rust, Wasmer, Wasmtime, Lucet and waSCC. It would be impossible to build Lunatic without all the hard work put into this projects.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing genact and lucet you can also consider the following projects:

hollywood

tuir

lunatic - The Lunatic VM [Moved to: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic]

Hacker-Typer - Hacker Typer is a fun joke for every person who wants to look like a cool hacker!

async-std - Async version of the Rust standard library

spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli

Celluloid - Actor-based concurrent object framework for Ruby

spicetify-cli - Command-line tool to customize Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

specs - Specs - Parallel ECS

cava - Cross-platform Audio Visualizer

component - Managed lifecycle of stateful objects in Clojure

Kubewarden - Kubewarden is a policy engine for Kubernetes. It helps with keeping your Kubernetes clusters secure and compliant. Kubewarden policies can be written using regular programming languages or Domain Specific Languages (DSL) sugh as Rego. Policies are compiled into WebAssembly modules that are then distributed using traditional container registries.