vswhere VS progenitor

Compare vswhere vs progenitor and see what are their differences.

vswhere

Locate Visual Studio 2017 and newer installations (by microsoft)

progenitor

rule-based growth of hexagonal cells (by martinxyz)
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vswhere progenitor
5 1
899 1
0.8% -
4.5 8.4
6 days ago 24 days ago
C++ Rust
MIT License MIT License
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vswhere

Posts with mentions or reviews of vswhere. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-27.
  • how does this work?
    1 project | /r/github | 24 Jul 2023
    But often maintainers also upload Releases with builds of their software, e.g. like here: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere/releases
  • Extending Python with Rust
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2022
    Finding where & how to use an installed VS instance (or selecting one) in automated tooling is solved by the criminally unknown, MIT licensed, MS supported, redistributable, vswhere tool: https://github.com/microsoft/vswhere
  • microsoft_craziness.h (2018)
    4 projects | /r/programming | 25 Nov 2021
    / // This file was about 400 lines before we started adding these comments. // You might think that's way too much code to do something as simple // as finding a few library and executable paths. I agree. However, // Microsoft's own solution to this problem, called "vswhere", is a // mere EIGHT THOUSAND LINE PROGRAM, spread across 70 files, // that they posted to github unironically. // // I am not making this up: https://github.com/Microsoft/vswhere
  • Microsoft_craziness.h
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2021

progenitor

Posts with mentions or reviews of progenitor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-27.
  • Extending Python with Rust
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2022
    Part of that is the ndarray crate, which IMO is too generic often, making syntax complicated. It's not going to get pythonic but the nalgebra crate is a bit nicer IMO, example:

    https://github.com/martinxyz/progenitor/blob/85260/crates/pr...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vswhere and progenitor you can also consider the following projects:

fastplotlib - Next-gen fast plotting library running on WGPU using the pygfx rendering engine

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

graphics_wgpu

NumPy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

pygfx - A python render engine running on wgpu.

tundra - Tundra is a code build system that tries to be accurate and fast for incremental builds

builder - Simple build system for Visual C++

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

numexpr - Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas, PyTables and more

Numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM