microlens VS kan-extensions

Compare microlens vs kan-extensions and see what are their differences.

microlens

A lightweight (but compatible with ‘lens’) lenses library (by stevenfontanella)

kan-extensions

Kan extensions, Kan lifts, the Yoneda lemma, and (co)monads generated by a functor (by ekmett)
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microlens kan-extensions
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284 77
1.1% -
7.5 4.9
7 days ago about 2 months ago
Haskell Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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microlens

Posts with mentions or reviews of microlens. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-03.
  • [Offer] Tutoring for Computer Science / Programming / Software Engineering topics
    2 projects | /r/tutor | 3 Sep 2022
    I'm a software engineer with 3 years of professional experience. I worked for 2 years at Microsoft on Azure Compute and now work at Google, working on improving Google search. I am the sole maintainer of the popular open-source library microlens with 80k downloads. I've also contributed to the Koka programming language developed at Microsoft Research.
  • microlens is looking for a new maintainer
    2 projects | /r/haskell | 8 May 2022
    microlens is a tiny van Laarhoven lenses library, mostly just copying definitions from lens and trying to avoid dependencies as much as possible. It has gained some popularity (742 package downloads in the last 30 days, vs the 1724 of the original lens).

kan-extensions

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning kan-extensions yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing microlens and kan-extensions you can also consider the following projects:

data-lens - Haskell 98 Lenses

semigroupoids

cassava-conduit - Conduit interface for cassava [Haskell]

range-set-list - Memory efficient sets with continuous ranges of elements. List based implementation.

fclabels - First class composable record labels for Haskell.

msgpack - Haskell implementation of MessagePack / msgpack.org[Haskell]

syb-with-class - Fork of http://patch-tag.com/r/Saizan/syb-with-class

proto-lens - API for protocol buffers using modern Haskell language and library patterns.

bimap - Bidirectional mapping between two key types

pretty-hex - A human readable style for binary data.

buffer-builder - Haskell library for efficiently building up buffers

data-category - Library of categories, with categorical constructions on them