unison VS nvim-treesitter-context

Compare unison vs nvim-treesitter-context and see what are their differences.

unison

A friendly programming language from the future (by unisonweb)
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unison nvim-treesitter-context
17 33
5,504 2,047
1.0% 5.7%
9.9 8.8
6 days ago 6 days ago
Haskell Lua
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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unison

Posts with mentions or reviews of unison. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-07.
  • Unison Cloud
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2024
    Hi, one of the Unison creators here. We've talked about adding pluggable syntax[1]. It's in principle straightforward (the code is already stored in a database as its abstract syntax tree, not text) and I imagine a future version of Unison could let you pick from a variety of syntaxes. But we haven't gotten to it yet.

    [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/499

    ... that said, the language semantics and libraries are still going to be different, so even if we have a python-ish or typescript-y syntax, there'll still be new things to learn. :)

    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Feb 2024
    Short version: no type classes (yet)

    Longer version:

    Building upon what Quekid5 mentioned, Unison abilities are an implementation of what is referred to as algebraic effects in programming language literature. They represent capabilities like IO, state, exceptions, etc. They aren't really a replacement for type classes, though in some cases you can shoehorn abilities in where you might otherwise use a type class.

    For someone coming from a Haskell background, I think that abilities are closer to a replacement for monad transformers. But in my opinion they are much more ergonomic.

    Discusson of type classes comes up a lot. Here is a long-standing GitHub issue: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/issues/502

    For what it's worth, I've written Unison quite a lot over the past few years and while I've missed type classes at times, I think that reading unfamiliar code is easier without them. There's no implicit magic; you can see exactly what is being passed into a function. So far I've been happy with a bit more verbosity for the sake of readability.

  • Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    I've been following the Unison lang [1] for quite some. Wing seem to set similar goals? From the first glance Wing looks more polished, but there's "The Big Idea" behind Unison - is there something similar?

    [1]: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison

  • C++ evolution vs C++ successor languages. Circle's feature pragmas let you select your own "evolver language."
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 23 Jan 2023
    in haskell it looks like this, you specify the language extensions you want at the top of the source files: https://github.com/unisonweb/unison/blob/trunk/unison-core/src/Unison/ABT.hs
  • Syntax Design
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 5 Nov 2022
    I think Unison is going in this direction. Imo this is a mistake, as a program language functions not just as specification for the machine, but also as communication between programmers. Allowing the introduction of arbitrary dialects to suit individual preferences seems like it would interfere with that communication.
  • What if Git worked with Programming Languages?
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2021
  • Red and blue functions are a good thing
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2021
    The Unison language [1] also has a very interesting effect system.

    [1] https://github.com/unisonweb/unison

  • What does your ideal programming language look like?
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 28 Jan 2021
    I think Unison might have at keast somewhat similar features to what you talk about with package manegement and possibly modules. I haven't tried it out yet but from the documentation it sounds similar.

nvim-treesitter-context

Posts with mentions or reviews of nvim-treesitter-context. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unison and nvim-treesitter-context you can also consider the following projects:

context.vim - Vim plugin that shows the context of the currently visible buffer contents

nvim-treesitter-textobjects

nvim-treehopper - Region selection with hints on the AST nodes of a document powered by treesitter

nvim-gps - Simple statusline component that shows what scope you are working inside

format.nvim - A wrapper around Neovims native LSP formatting. [Moved to: https://github.com/lukas-reineke/lsp-format.nvim]

indent-blankline.nvim - Indent guides for Neovim

dein.vim - :zap: Dark powered Vim/Neovim plugin manager

diffsitter - A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability

dark - Darklang main repo, including language, backend, and infra

rust-tools.nvim - Tools for better development in rust using neovim's builtin lsp

project-m36 - Project: M36 Relational Algebra Engine