zlib
Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats (by haskell)
tar
Reading, writing and manipulating ".tar" archive files. (by haskell)
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| zlib | tar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 35 | 38 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.2 | 9.0 | |
| about 2 hours ago | about 1 month ago | |
| C | Haskell | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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.
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.
zlib
Posts with mentions or reviews of zlib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
tar
Posts with mentions or reviews of tar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-14.
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Edward Kmett reflects on the benefits of Haskell as a functional programming language - especially at scale.
It's a conceptual error of the authors. You can't fuse if you're still holding a reference to the thunk: https://github.com/haskell/tar/issues/57
What are some alternatives?
When comparing zlib and tar you can also consider the following projects:
hs-zstd - Bindings to the Zstandard library to make it usable from the Haskell programming language.
mime - A Haskell MIME library
binary-serialise-cbor - Binary serialisation in the CBOR format
json-encoder - A single-pass JSON encoder with a declarative DSL
lz4 - Haskell bindings to lz4
activitystreams-aeson - Basic library for working with Activity Streams
simple-tar - A very simple tar archive processing library
snappy - Fast Haskell bindings to Google's Snappy compression library
zlib-bindings - Low-level wrapper around the zlib library
threefish - Haskell implementation of the Threefish block cipher and the Skein hash function built on it.