process VS bench

Compare process vs bench and see what are their differences.

process

Clojure library for shelling out / spawning sub-processes (by babashka)

bench

Command-line benchmark tool (by Gabriella439)
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process bench
3 0
200 863
4.5% -
6.5 3.0
about 2 months ago 2 months ago
Clojure Haskell
Eclipse Public License 1.0 BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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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.

process

Posts with mentions or reviews of process. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-25.
  • Poor documentation?
    4 projects | /r/Clojure | 25 Jun 2023
    Check out babashka/fs and babashka/process as well. These are still based on Java interop underneath but they have some more features than the clojure.java.io and clojure.java.sh libraries. I tend to reach for these first when I need to do something filesystem or process related.
  • How do I install module?
    2 projects | /r/Clojure | 3 Sep 2022
    A bit off-topic but if you're looking for an up-to-date maintained library to shell out in Clojure, take a look at process
  • ClojureRS – Clojure interpreter implemented in Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2022
    Nothing prevents you from using babashka and still use it as a glue for Unix programs. The difference is you get a nicer language (my opinion), a REPL if you want, and also you do get access to a lot more libraries from Java and Clojure and the pod concept of you want too as well.

    So to be clear, you can easily use ImageMagick, curl, jq, pup, etc. See: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.java.shell-api.htm... and https://github.com/babashka/process

    Other benefits are that you only need to learn Clojure and suddenly you can use it for everything, backend apps, frontend apps, scripts, etc. You don't need to learn bash, js and Java/go, make, etc.

    > Then I did a very brief search for clojure libraries, things like parsing html. Most of the github projects were not seeing much activity (like last commit in 2020)

    This surprises everyone, but those libraries still work, have no bugs, are missing no features, and can be used without issues in production.

    Clojure is one of the most stable language, so things never break and almost never need updating.

    People have a kind of Stockholm syndrome I think coming to other languages that if something didn't need a bug fix in a year it must be abandoned and broken.

    And the reason you often don't need to update those libraries to keep up with the environment, like OS versions, is because they all leverage existing runtimes under the hood like JVM and that's the one that updates. So they're all secure and kept up to date, working with new OS and new architecture for free as JVM updates. This applies to Babashka as well, because it is implemented using a JVM.

bench

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing process and bench you can also consider the following projects:

xmobar - A minimalistic status bar

cef - A Haskell library for CEF (Commont Event Format)

optparse-declarative - Declarative command-line option parser

HFuse - Haskell bindings for the FUSE library

taffybar - A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad

ascii-progress - A simple Haskell progress bar for the console. Heavily borrows from TJ Holowaychuk's Node.JS project

nix-diff - Explain why two Nix derivations differ

process - Library for dealing with system processes

ekg-statsd - Flush system metrics to statsd

unix - POSIX functionality

ekg-cloudwatch - CloudWatch stats for ekg

system-posix-redirect - A toy module that allows you to temporarily redirect a program's stdout.