scientific VS hnix

Compare scientific vs hnix and see what are their differences.

scientific

Arbitrary-precision floating-point numbers represented using scientific notation (by basvandijk)

hnix

A Haskell re-implementation of the Nix expression language (by haskell-nix)
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scientific hnix
1 4
71 728
- 1.2%
0.0 6.8
4 months ago about 2 months ago
Haskell Nix
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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scientific

Posts with mentions or reviews of scientific. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-05.
  • High-performance JSON codec
    4 projects | /r/haskell | 5 Feb 2021
    Also weighing against scientific is a correctness issue. The exponent cannot be larger than the maximum machine word value.

hnix

Posts with mentions or reviews of hnix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-06.
  • Adding my own stuff to the prelude / global imports?
    1 project | /r/haskell | 19 Mar 2023
    I can refere to prelude setup in HNix
  • Good Haskell Source Code
    5 projects | /r/haskell | 6 Jan 2022
    I also can nominate HNix: https://github.com/haskell-nix/hnix. Nix is a lazy pure language, HNix is an implementation of Nix in lazy pure language (Haskell). The project was done by a famous expert in the field of compilers/interpreters, which worked on Borland C++ compiler back in a day. The project overall was done by a pretty start team.
  • Tvix: We are rewriting Nix
    2 projects | /r/NixOS | 3 Dec 2021
    Well, maintaining a rewrite of Nix in Haskell: https://github.com/haskell-nix/hnix.
  • HNix - Nix in Haskell, about the project & meeting with the creator
    1 project | /r/haskell | 5 Jun 2021
    HNix is a Nix (pure lazy language) interpreter/tooling in Haskell. So it is a field&case of pure-to-pure, lazy-to-lazy language creation. HNix is created with fancy design paradigms (design introduction): as recursion schemes (since Nix is a recursive language) & Abstracting Definitional Interpreters. Mentioning these two particularly, as they align HNix to GHC in a natural way, design leverages & projects GHC power to HNix, allowing to concentrate on language implementation.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scientific and hnix you can also consider the following projects:

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

massiv - Efficient Haskell Arrays featuring Parallel computation

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safecopy - An extension to Data.Serialize with built-in version control

patches-vector - A library for patches (diffs) on vectors: composable, mergeable and invertible

hashable - A class for types that can be converted to a hash value

abcBridge - Haskell bindings for ABC

fmlist - FoldMap lists

b-tree - Haskell on-disk B* tree implementation

certificate - Certificate and Key Reader/Writer in haskell

primitive - This package provides various primitive memory-related operations.