hask vs apecs

hask

Category theory for Haskell with a lens flavor (you need GHC 7.8.3, not 7.8.2 to build this!) (by ekmett)

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apecs

a fast, extensible, type driven Haskell ECS framework for games (by jonascarpay)

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hask		apecs
	Project
-	Mentions	4
160	Stars	381
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.3
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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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.

hask

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

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

apecs

Posts with mentions or reviews of apecs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-18.

I want to make a game in Haskell to surprise my boyfriend, but don’t know where to start.
1 project | /r/haskell | 22 Jan 2023

There's an apecs-gloss tutorial here that is a simple Shmup.
New Haskell ebook: Learn Haskell by building a blog generator
1 project | /r/haskell | 5 Dec 2021

The apecs paper and associated shoot 'em up game tutorial
Looking for projects that make heavy use of IntMap which have benchmarks
4 projects | /r/haskell | 18 Sep 2021

apecs uses IntMaps all over the place and is benchmarked. They're the most common backing data structure for Components I'd say.
Unity Patents ECS
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021

Example of ECS that was published on GitHub before this patent was even filed: https://github.com/jonascarpay/apecs.git

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hask and apecs you can also consider the following projects:

record - Anonymous records

frpnow

funflow - Functional workflows

ImperativeHaskell - Proof that Haskell can look and act like an imperative language.

cloud-haskell - This is an umbrella development repository for Cloud Haskell

transient - A full stack, reactive architecture for general purpose programming. Algebraic and monadically composable primitives for concurrency, parallelism, event handling, transactions, multithreading, Web, and distributed computing with complete de-inversion of control (No callbacks, no blocking, pure state)

extensible-effects - Extensible Effects: An Alternative to Monad Transformers

exceptions - mtl friendly exceptions

tardis

auto - Haskell DSL and platform providing denotational, compositional api for discrete-step, locally stateful, interactive programs, games & automations. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/auto

selective - Selective Applicative Functors: Declare Your Effects Statically, Select Which to Execute Dynamically