abstract-par vs apecs

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

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abstract-par		apecs
	Project
-	Mentions	4
123	Stars	381
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	7.3
5 months 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

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abstract-par

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

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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 abstract-par and apecs you can also consider the following projects:

monad-control - Lift control operations, like exception catching, through monad transformers

frpnow

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

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

fused-effects - A fast, flexible, fused effect system for Haskell

record - Anonymous records

SciFlow - Scientific workflow management

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

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

objective - Purely functional objects

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