icr VS fancyline

Compare icr vs fancyline and see what are their differences.

icr

Interactive console for Crystal programming language (by crystal-community)

fancyline

Readline-esque library with fancy features (by Papierkorb)
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icr fancyline
2 1
500 75
0.4% -
1.8 0.0
over 2 years ago almost 3 years ago
Crystal Crystal
MIT License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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icr

Posts with mentions or reviews of icr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-26.
  • Crystal's Interpreter (2021)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jun 2022
    it's had an IRB-like REPL for years. It just wasn't built into the language. Admittedly it was limited compared to IRB but it was more than enough to test out quick ideas.

    It's called ICR: Interactive Crystal

    https://github.com/crystal-community/icr

    the first release was back in 2017

  • Simple Jupyter kernel for Crystal with 140 lines
    3 projects | /r/crystal_programming | 20 Mar 2022
    I wrote a Crystal kernel for Jupyter, just a modified bash_kernel, 140 lines of code, but it was tiring because I don't have enough Python ability. icrystal is the widely used Jupyter kernel for Crystal, which uses ICR . On the other hand, this crystal_kernel uses the official crystal interpreter.

fancyline

Posts with mentions or reviews of fancyline. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
  • An Ode to Ruby
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2022
    So you are accusing me of lying, how lovely of you!

    Let's see if your accusations can hold up to Socratic questioning:

    - If I haven't open sourced any Crystal projects does that mean I haven't written any?

    - I have published several Ruby gems[0], when was the last commit or version bump for any of them? You're more interested that I am, tell me. I really should archive them, thanks for reminding me.

    - You missed off my Gitlab, what was the last public contribution I made there? (hint[1])

    - What's the last gem I created? I reckon it's this one that I didn't publish[2] because the Rack team changed a public API in such a dumb way that I'd have to rewrite it and then mucked me around with a pull request to Rack that one of the core team copy and pasted in as their own commit while arguing against the pull. Weird, but lovely people, like yourself. Meanwhile, your cookies lack security. Yes, I want to continue working within this language and ecosystem… Does the sarcasm come through in my writing?

    - Why did you not check the Crystal repo?[3][4] Github has a search facility. Put my username in, and pick `commits` on the left.

    - How did you miss the forks of Docopt.cr[5] and Fancyline[6]? They're right there in my public activity log. Did you not see the merges into Fancyline of my code?[7] I have more to give, just trying to find the time.

    - Did you not see forks with commits such as xattr.cr[8], xdg.cr[9], and Pope.cr[10]

    - You didn't see I'd provided a project[11] for Mint so it can be run easier with Docker Compose?

    - Aside from that I have a whole host of changes to migrate.cr[12] still to push up. You can't know that but you might've guessed that I was at least working with that - and all the other forks of Crystal projects I have.

    That is all public and not the half of the Crystal code I look at.

    Should I expect an apology? If you were too cowardly to be straightforward with your accusations then I find it stretches credulity far beyond breaking that you could be big enough to provide one. We'll see, like you, I've been very wrong about people in the past.

    [0] https://rubygems.org/profiles/yb66

    [1] https://gitlab.com/arctic-fox/spectator/-/merge_requests/34

    [2] https://gitlab.com/yb66/aes-gcm

    [3] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/pull/11201

    [4] https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/1.1.0/CHANGELOG...

    [5] https://github.com/yb66/docopt.cr

    [6] https://github.com/yb66/fancyline

    [7] https://github.com/Papierkorb/fancyline/pulls?q=is%3Apr+yb66

    [8] https://github.com/ettomatic/xattr/pulls

    [9] https://github.com/dscottboggs/xdg.cr/pull/1

    [10] https://github.com/yb66/pope.cr/commits/master

    [11] https://github.com/yb66/Mint-Docker-Compose

    [12] https://github.com/yb66/migrate.cr

What are some alternatives?

When comparing icr and fancyline you can also consider the following projects:

crystal_kernel - Python wrapper kernel for Crystal

kakoune.cr - A command-line tool for Kakoune

ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API.

Mint-Docker-Compose - A (hopefully) easy way to run Mint via Docker

charly - 🐈 The Charly Programming Language | Written by @KCreate

werk - Dead simple task runner

bash_kernel - A bash kernel for IPython

spectator

FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

fancyline - Readline-esque library with fancy features

kemal - Fast, Effective, Simple Web Framework

aes-gcm