reflection-extras vs lens

reflection-extras

Utilities for the reflection package (by jfischoff)

Data Reflection

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lens

Lenses, Folds, and Traversals - Join us on web.libera.chat #haskell-lens (by ekmett)

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reflection-extras		lens
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-	Mentions	4
4	Stars	1,982
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.8
almost 7 years ago	Latest Commit	6 days ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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reflection-extras

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lens

Posts with mentions or reviews of lens. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-06.

Haskell Lens Tutorial by Exercises
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2022

They are in fact well structured and not random at all. Take a look at this:
https://github.com/ekmett/lens/wiki/Operators
-- /It puts the state in the monad or it gets the hose again./
1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 22 Sep 2022
How to learn OOP?
1 project | /r/typescript | 4 Sep 2022

A composition of functional operations over Kmett style lenses. Here's the original Haskell implementation, here's usage in JS via Ramda
Dhall: A Gateway Drug to Haskell
27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2022

The documentation of lenses is geared towards people know what lenses are. Of course this single fragment of documentation doesn't make sense if you don't know what lenses are. If you want to understand what lenses are the package links to a helpful wiki and tutorial: https://github.com/ekmett/lens/wiki/Overview
All within reach within seconds of discovering the function.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing reflection-extras and lens you can also consider the following projects:

reflection - Reifies arbitrary Haskell terms into types that can be reflected back into terms

proxy - proxy 'helpers'

generic-persistence - GenericPersistence is a Haskell persistence library for relational databases. The approach relies on GHC.Generics. A real-world demo can be found here:

algebraic-classes - Conversions between algebraic classes and F-algebras.

RFC1751 - RFC-1751 library for Haskell

hexml-lens - Lenses for working with XML data

proxy - This repository contains the WhatsApp proxy implementation for users to host their own proxy infrastructure to connect to WhatsApp for chat (VoIP is not currently supported)

double-metaphone

Frames - Data frames for tabular data.

minst-idx - Read and write data in the IDX format used in e.g. the MNIST database

data-fix - Fixpoint data types

lens-simple - simplified import of lens-family