Hamster vs Helix

Hamster

Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby (by hamstergem)

Core Extensions

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Helix

Native Ruby extensions without fear (by tildeio)

Core Extensions Rust Ruby Helix

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Hamster		Helix
	Project
-	Mentions	2
1,876	Stars	1,987
0.0%	Growth	-
4.1	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
Ruby	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	ISC License

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.

Hamster

Posts with mentions or reviews of Hamster. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Hamster yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Helix

Posts with mentions or reviews of Helix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-02.

[Rust] Quelle est la meilleure façon actuelle d'appeler Rust de Ruby?
1 project | /r/enfrancais | 5 May 2023
Crystal 1.0 vs Ruby 3.0 Benchmark
4 projects | /r/crystal_programming | 2 Apr 2021

You hit the nail on the head. That’s exactly what I’ll be working on. Similar to what Helix did for Rust. https://usehelix.com/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Hamster and Helix you can also consider the following projects:

Hashie - Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make Ruby hashes more powerful.

Ruru - Native Ruby extensions written in Rust

Ruby Facets - Ruby Facets

rutie - “The Tie Between Ruby and Rust.”

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

Addressable - Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. It is flexible, offers heuristic parsing, and additionally provides extensive support for IRIs and URI templates.

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rustfmt - Format Rust code

Finishing Moves - Small, focused, awesome methods added to core Ruby classes. Home of the endlessly useful nil_chain.